From the DVD - Library ed.
Part 1: Lecture 1. Artful reading and everyday reading
Lecture 2. Authors, real and implied
Lecture 3. Narrators: their voices and their visions
Lecture 4. Characters: beyond round and flat
Lecture 5. Descriptions: people, places, and the things
Lecture 6. Minimalists to maximalists to lyricists
Lecture 7. Explosive devices: irony and ambiguity
Lecture 8. Reading for the plot: five simple words
Lecture 9. Master plots: the stranger and the journey
Lecture 10. The Game is afoot: Sherlock Holmes
Lecture 11. The Plot thickens: Scott and Bronte
Lecture 12.The Plot vanishes: Faulkner and Woolf.
Part 2 : Lecture 13. Chapters, patterns and rhythms
Lecture 14. Scene and summary, showing and telling
Lecture 15. Subtexts, motives, and secrets
Lecture 16. Dialogue: the good, the bad, the ugly
Lecture 17. Metafiction: fiction about fiction
Lecture 18. Adaptation: from fiction to film
Lecture 19. Realism times four
Lecture 20. Thumbs up? interpretation and evaluation
Lecture 21. A Long short story: Runaway
Lecture 22. A Classic novel : the age of innocence
Lecture 23. A Baggy monster: War and peace
Lecture 24. Picking up the tools.
disc 1. Lectures 1-6. Artful reading and everyday reading
Narrators : their voices and their visions
Characters : beyond round and flat
Descriptions : people, places, and the things
Minimalists to maximalists to lyricists
disc 2. Lectures 7-12. Explosive devices : irony and ambiguity
Reading for the plot : five simple words
Master plots : the stranger and the journey
The game is afoot : Sherlock Holmes
The plot thickens : Scott and Bronte
The plot vanishes: Faulkner and Woolf
disc 3. Lectures 13-18. Chapters, patterns and rhythms
Scene and summary, showing and telling
Subtexts, motives, and secrets
Dialogue : the good, the bad the ugly
Metafiction: fiction about fiction
Adaptation: from fiction to film
Lectures 19-24. Realism times four
Thumbs up? : interpretation and evaluation
A classic novel : The age of innocence
A baggy monster : War and peace
