Album
Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative
Tracklist
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Why Literature — Civilization and Its Discontents
Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative
2
Oedipus the King and the Nature of Greek Tragedy
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Fate and Free Will — Reading the Signs in Oedipus
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4
Self-Making vs. Self-Discovery in Oedipus
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The Interpretive Afterlife of Oedipus
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6
Shakespeare's Othello — Tragedy of Marriage and State
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Poison in the Ear, or the Dismantling of Othello
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8
Rethinking Othello — Race, Gender and Subjectivity
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9
French Theater and Moliere's Comedy of Vices
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10
Tartuffe and Varieties of Imposture
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Religious Hypocrisy — Beyond Comedy
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12
Georg Büchner — Physician, Revolutionary, Playwright
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13
Woyzeck the Proletarian Murderer — "Unaccommodated Man"
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14
Woyzeck and Visionary Theater
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Strindberg's Father — Patriarchy in Trouble
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Marriage — Theatrical Agon or Darwinian Struggle?
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The Father — From Theater of Power to Power of Theater
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18
Beckett's Godot — Chaplinesque or Post-Nuclear?
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19
Beckett and the Comedy of Undoing
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Godot Absent — Didi and Gogo Present
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21
Study of Literature — Approaches, Encounters, Departures
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Shakespeare's Sonnets — The Glory of Poetry
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The Shape of Love and Death in Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Innocence and Experience in William Blake
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Blakean Fables of Desire
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Blake — Visionary Poet
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27
Whitman and the Making of an American Bard
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"Myself" as Whitman's Nineteenth-Century American Hero
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29
Form and Flux, Openness and Anxiety in Whitman's Poetry
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30
Emily Dickinson — The Prophetic Voice From the Margins
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Dickinson and the Poetry of Consciousness
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Dickinson — Death and Beyond
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Baudelaire — The Setting of the Romantic Sun
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Baudelaire's Poetry of Modernism and Metropolis
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35
Robert Frost — The Wisdom of the People
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Frost — The Darker View
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Wallace Stevens and the Modernist Movement
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Stevens and the Post-Romantic Imagination
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Adrienne Rich and the Poetry of Protest
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Rich's Project — Diving Into the Wreck of Western Culture
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The Lives of the Word — Reading Today
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Chretien de Troyes' Yvain — Growing Up in the Middle Ages
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Yvain's Theme — Ignorant Armies Clash by Night
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The Picaresque Novel — Satire, Filth and Hustling
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Francisco Quevedo's Swindler — The Word on the Street
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Daniel Defoe's Plain Style and the New World Order
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Moll Flanders and the Self-Made Woman
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Matter and Spirit in Defoe
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Dickens — The Novel as Moral Institution
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Pip's Progress — From Blacksmith to Snob and Back
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Riddles of Identity in Great Expectations
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Charlotte Brontë and the Bildungsroman
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Jane Eyre — Victorian Bad Girl Makes Good
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The Madwoman in the Attic — 19th Century Bills Coming Due
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Melville's "Bartleby" and the Genesis of Character
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"Bartleby" — Christ on Wall Street?
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Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" — Sacrifice or Power Game?
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Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" — The Writing Machine
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Faulkner's "The Bear" — Stories of White and Black
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"The Bear" — American Myth or American History?
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Tracking the Bear, or Learning to Read
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Alice Walker's Celie — The Untold Story
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Ideology as Vision in the Color Purple
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Reconceiving Center and Margin
Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative