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The Modern Scholar: The Modern Novel
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A recipient of the Whiting Foundation Teaching Fellowship, Katherine Elkins is also the co-director of the Integrated Program in the Humane Studies at Kenyon College. In this lecture series, Elkins examines the development of the modern novel by investigating four great modernist authors: James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf. The lectures explore the authors’ most respected works and illustrate how each author’s unique style and vision made a major contribution to the look and shape of the novel today.
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Kenyon College professor Dr. Timothy B. Shutt examines Dante's greatest work, The Divine Comedy, both in terms of its autobiographical elements and its allegorical meaning for the human race.
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A Tour de Force on a Tour de Force
- By John on 05-19-14
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The Modern Scholar: First Principles & Natural Law: The Foundations of Political Philosophy, Part I
- By: Professor Hadley Arkes
- Narrated by: Professor Hadley Arkes
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 75
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In this course of lectures, Professor Hadley Arkes seeks to recall the classic connection between morality and law. For law works by sweeping away personal choice and private judgment and replacing them with a public rule, meant to be enforced on everyone. And that state of affairs can be justified only if the law can, in fact, appeal to an understanding of the things that are more generally or universally right or wrong.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just for men?
- By debra on 12-15-12
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The Modern Scholar: Giants of French Literature
- Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus
- By: Prof. Katherine Elkins
- Narrated by: Katherine Elkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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In this series of lectures, Professor Katherine Elkins details the lives and works of the premier French writers of the last two centuries. With keen insight into her subject material, Professor Elkins discusses the attributes that made classics of such works as Balzac's Human Comedy, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and Camus' The Stranger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Modern Scholar: Giants of French Literature
- By Dudley H. Williams on 11-29-11
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Modern Scholar: God
- A History
- By: Ilan Stavans
- Narrated by: IIan Stavans
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 17
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In this sweeping history, Ilan Stavans explores the way humans have evolved in their conception of the divine, from an animistic view defined by spirituality to Greek myths and the Aztec pantheon, onward to the development on monotheism as a powerful religion in the Middle East that was crystallized in the biblical narrative. He meditates on what type of divine presences coexist in the Hebrew Bible and how these entities take bifurcating paths in Christianity and Islam.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointment in the Extreme
- By James on 05-22-15
By: Ilan Stavans
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The Modern Scholar
- From Here to Infinity: An Exploration of Science Fiction Literature
- By: Professor Michael D. C. Drout
- Narrated by: Professor Michael D. C. Drout
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The best science fiction asks essential questions: What does it mean to be human? Are we alone in the universe, and what does it mean if we're not? Esteemed professor Michael D. C. Drout traces the history of science fiction in this series of stimulating lectures. From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to today's cutting- edge authors, Drout offers a compelling analysis of the genre, including a look at the golden age of science fiction, New Wave writers, and contemporary trends in the field.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nerdy? Probably... Enjoyable? Yes
- By Timothy on 08-27-09
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The Modern Scholar: The Author at Work
- The Art of Writing Fiction
- By: Professor Jenna Blum
- Narrated by: Professor Jenna Blum
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 69
New York Times best-selling author Jenna Blum has scored critical and commercial success with her novels Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers. One of Oprah’s Top Thirty Women’s Writers, Blum has also taught creative writing at Boston University and master novel workshops for Grub Street Writers. Here Blum shares insights into the writing process and offers listeners the most important aspects of succeeding as an author.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best writing how-to's I've ever read
- By Bradford on 04-23-14
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The Modern Scholar: Ethics: A History of Moral Thought
- By: Professor Peter Kreeft
- Narrated by: Peter Kreeft
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 493
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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This course addresses some of the eternal questions that man has grappled with since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust? Most human beings have the faculty to discern between right and wrong, good and bad behavior, and to make judgments over what is just and what is unjust. But why are ethics important to us?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly Good
- By J. Maxwell on 11-02-09
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The Modern Scholar: Physics for Poets
- By: Professor Richard T. Kouzes
- Narrated by: Professor Richard T. Kouzes
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 13
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Exploring many of the most significant concepts in physics, Professor Kouzes explains each in a very straightforward and approachable manner. He begins by examining the history of physics - the "knowledge of nature" - as a science which encompasses the study of matter and all of the phenomena that are observed in our universe. He also explores the origins of physics, tracing it back to the ancient world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Read
- By Babbet the Book Worm on 01-07-15
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The Modern Scholar: The Iliad and The Odyssey of Homer
- By: Professor Timothy B. Shutt
- Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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One of the Modern Scholar’s most popular professors, Timothy B. Shutt, brings his literary acumen and trademark enthusiasm to the study of the epic poems that sit at the very wellspring of Western culture. The earliest surviving works of Greek literature, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey exert a continuing influence on modern culture, even today shaping people’s values and conduct. In the tales of Achilles and Hector, of Odysseus and Penelope, Homer explored the notion of arête, which translates as "excellence" or "virtue".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb prof
- By customer on 01-22-24
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Rise of the Novel
- Exploring History’s Greatest Early Works
- By: Leo Damrosch, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Leo Damrosch
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Thousands of novels are published around the world every year. There are so many readily available, it would take multiple lifetimes for a single person to even read a fraction of them. But it hasn’t always been that way. While humans have always been storytellers, the novel as we recognize it today is a relatively new art form in the timeline of human culture. Of all the ways we tell stories, why has the novel become such a perennial favorite? How did the novel go from a narrative experiment with a low-brow reputation to a cultural touchstone and focal point of modern literature?
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5 out of 5 stars
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the more I read the further behind I get
- By Bruce on 02-08-22
By: Leo Damrosch, and others
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- Splendifermoose
- 10-19-15
Too short, I need more!
Any additional comments?
This lecture series covers the proper/academic definition of the "modern novel," that is, novels written as part of the Modernist movement in the earlier part of the 20th century. Don't be a dummy like me, not read the production description, assume the colloquial term for modern, and think the series was going to cover novels all through the 20th century well past the period actually addressed.
That being said, Prof. Elkins offers a wonderful little series of lectures about some books that definitely deserve a second (or first) reading if you haven't tackled these novels since school that provides great insight into the writing, and social and historical context behind the books.
I would definitely listen to a lecture series from Prof. Elkins that's a traditional length for the Great Courses (15-20 hours) and would recommend this series to anyone interested in 20th century literature. A very enjoyable listen.
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- Lori Tian Sailiata
- 06-14-15
Encore!
I specifically picked out this selection because of Prof. Elkins. My only disappointment is that it is half the length of her course on the giants of French literature.
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