Spurgin, Timothy.
Summary: "These lectures demonstrate how to read fiction carefully for full enjoyment. The lectures begin with basic concepts from simpler stories before progressing into books famous for their complexity. The lectures explain literary devices such as irony and foreshadowing and show how skilled authors have used such devices to great effect in classic works of literature"--Guidebook.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808 ARTCall number: CD 808 ART V. 1 OF 2
Call number: CD 808 ART V. 2 OF 2
Spurgin, Timothy.
Summary: Examines the wonderful feeling of engaging with a novel or short story on all levels and learning how artful readers think about and approach the works they read.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 ARTCall number: DVD 808 ART
Summary: Professor Spurgin, of Lawrence University, traces the novel from its beginnings in the 18th century, when Samuel Richardson penned Pamela, to its culmination in the work of the 20th century Modernists, including Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. He also relates plots and characters of particular novels to larger movements in English history. By placing more than two centuries of great English...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.009 ENGCall number: 823.009 ENG PT. 1
Call number: 823.009 ENG PT. 2