Grant L Voth
Autor de Great Mythologies of the World
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Grant L Voth
The two gentlemen of Verona: A study guide for the Shakespeare plays (The Shakespeare plays) (1984) 1 copia
Down and Out in Paris and London 1 copia
Borges’ “Labyrinths” 1 copia
Beckett’s Plays 1 copia
Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” 1 copia
Warren’s All the King’s Men 1 copia
Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem” 1 copia
Pirandello’s “Six Characters” 1 copia
Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” 1 copia
Joyce’s “Dubliners” 1 copia
Higuchi Ichiyo’s “Child’s Play” 1 copia
Zusak's The Book Thief 1 copia
Kushner’s Angels in America 1 copia
Munro, Short Story Selections 1 copia
Jataka, Story Selections 1 copia
Satrapi, “Persepolis” 1 copia
Hersey, “Hiroshima” 1 copia
Chopin, "The Awakening" 1 copia
Melville, "Billy Budd" 1 copia
Chekhov, Short Stories 1 copia
Lu Xun, Short Story Selections 1 copia
Cather, "Alexander's Bridge" 1 copia
Moore and Gibbons's Watchmen 1 copia
Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” 1 copia
Dickinson’s Poetry 1 copia
Stories and Storytellers 1 copia
Virgil’s “Aeneid” 1 copia
Greek Tragedy 1 copia
Classical Chinese Literature 1 copia
Homer’s “Odyssey” 1 copia
Homer’s “Iliad” 1 copia
The Hebrew Bible 1 copia
The “Epic of Gilgamesh” 1 copia
The New Testament 1 copia
Great Mythologies of the World 1 copia
The Titans in Greek Mythology 1 copia
Bhagavad Gita 1 copia
“Beowulf” 1 copia
Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” 1 copia
Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” 1 copia
Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A study guide for the Shakespeare plays (The Shakespeare plays) (1984) 1 copia
Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” 1 copia
Goethe’s “Faust” 1 copia
Voltaire’s “Candide” 1 copia
Moliere’s Plays 1 copia
Shakespeare 1 copia
Indian Stories 1 copia
The “Heptameron” 1 copia
Wu-Ch’eng-en’s “Monkey” 1 copia
“1001 Nights” 1 copia
Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” 1 copia
“The Tale of Genji” 1 copia
Early Japanese Poetry 1 copia
T’ang Poetry 1 copia
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Each of the 36 lectures focuses on a relatively short work of literature, one that can be read within one or a few sittings. The lectures introduce the works in the context of their authors, themes, nature, history, significance, and impact. The idea is that people with busy lives who lack the time to tackle larger works of literature by eminent writers of fiction can sample shorter works by such authors. Thus, readers not ready to try James Joyce's "Ulysses" will benefit from reading and learning about "The Dead", and those intimidated by Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" can start with "Pantaloon in Black". The works presented span the 19th and 20th centuries, and include those from such authors as Austen, Melville, Kafka, Hemingway, Chopin, Wilde, Woolf, Proust, Munroe, and Stevenson, along with a few more modern authors.
I consider the series of lectures to be well- conceived and well- executed, and overall, a fine way to become acquainted with eminent authors and their works of literature. For several of the authors the particular short work selected offers an excellent introduction. For example, "Billy Budd" is a masterpiece of literature, and guided by the analysis of the lecturer (Gerald Voth), the new reader will likely be ready to try Melville's longer works (such as "Moby Dick"). Likewise, "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" is the most accessible and well-known of Stevenson's fiction, and a fine introduction to the new reader who has yet to experience "Treasure Island"
In some cases, the selection discussed will help the reader judge whether to continue with a given author's works. Notably, "A Country Doctor" is a good way to begin with work by Franz Kafka. Lecturer Arnold Weinstein helps guide the reader through strange imagery that would otherwise seem alien and off-putting. A reader who (despite Weinstein's analysis) finds the tale too confusing should probably stay away from "The Trial" or "The Castle".
In other cases, the selection analyzed is not typical of the author's other work. For example, Flaubert's "A Simple Heart" is (in my view) far less enjoyable than "Madame Bovary", and the quality of "Lady Susan" notwithstanding, I would recommend that it be read *after (not before) Jane Austen's novels. In still other cases, the short work selected is of lesser quality than an author's other work, a category in which I would include Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea".
Likewise, one can question the omission of certain authors, my list of which would include Dickens, Forster, Maugham, Steinbeck, and Vonnegut. But tastes differ
Below is a list of the 36 works discussed, along with their authors.
1. Kafka, Country Doctor
2. Prevost, Manon Lescaut
3. Flaubert, A Simple Heart
4. Faulkner, Pantaloon in Black
5. Borges, Short Story Selections
6. Hemingway, Old Man & the Sea
7. O'Connor, Short Story Selections
8. Lagervist, The Sybil
9. Vesaas, The Ice Palace
10. Calvino, Invisible Cities
11. Duras, The Lover
12. Coetzee, Disgrace
13. Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
14. Austen, Lady Susan
15. Balzac, Girl with the Golden Eyes
16. Meredith, Modern Love
17. Huysmans Against the Grain
18. Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
19. Wilde, Portrait of Dorian Gray
20. Jame, Beast in the Jungle
21. Joyce, The Dead
22. Proust, Lemoin Affair
23. Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street
24. McEwan, On Chesil Beach
25. Cather, Alexander's Bridge
26. Lu Xun, Short Story Selections
27. Chopin, The Awakening
28. Melville, Billy Budd
29. McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Café
30. Chekhov, Short Story Selections
31. Hersey, Hiroshima
32. Satrapi, Persepolis
33. Jataka, Short Story Selections
34. Munro, Short Story Selections
35. Basho, Narrow Road of the Interior
36. Siljie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress… (más)