Teaching Company: Masterpieces of Short Fiction DVD (Course Number 2317, Great Courses)

This is Course Number 2317 which contains 4 DVDs and Course Guidebook. Contains 24 lectures of 30 minutes each. Course Lecture Titles 1. Excavations-Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" 2. Hawthorne's "Goodman Brown" and Lost Faith 3. Under Gogol's "Overcoat" 4. Maupassant's "The Necklace"-Real and Paste 5. Chekhov, Love, and "The Lady with the Dog" 6. James in the Art Studio-"The Real Thing" 7. Epiphany and the Modern in Joyce's "Araby" 8. Babel's "My First Goose"-Violent Concision 9. Male Initiation-Hemingway's "The Killers" 10. Kafka's Parable-"A Hunger Artist" 11. Lawrence's Blue-eyed "Rocking-Horse Winner" 12. Female Initiation-Mansfield's "Party" 13. Jackson's Shocking Vision in "The Lottery" 14. O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 15. Paley on Survival and "An Interest in Life" 16. The "Enormous Wings" of García Márquez 17. A New World Fable-Malamud's "The Jewbird" 18. Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"-A Harlem Song 19. Updike's "A & P"-The Choice of Gallantry 20. Kingston's Warrior Myth-"No Name Woman" 21. Atwood's "Happy Endings" as Metafiction 22. Gordimer's "Moment Before" Apartheid Fell 23. Carver's "Cathedral"-A Story that Levitates 24. Why Short Fiction Masterpieces?