Literature and Form
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 12 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLecture series looking at key concepts in studying Literature; including lectures on the concept of unreliable narrators to theory of comparative literature. This series was filmed in the English Faculty in Trinity Term 2012
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Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"?
May 21, 2012 11:02 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBDr Catherine Brown gives the fourth and final lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. With a philosophical discussion on what Comparative Literature is and how we can study 'literature in comparison'.
Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting
May 21, 2012 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBDr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including the differing ways writers plot their work; from multi-plotted works like Ulysses (Joyce) to double plotted works like Daniel Deronda (George Eliot).
Literature and Form 2: Chapters
May 21, 2012 10:58 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBDr. Catherine Brown offers a series of talks introducing different writing forms and their use in great novels: In the second lecture, Brown talks about the ways in which writers choose to break up their works into chapters, parts, and volumes.
Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators
May 21, 2012 10:56 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBDr. Catherine Brown offers a series introducing different writing forms and their use in great novels: In the first lecture, Brown discusses the use of the unreliable narrator, particularly in Nabokov's Lolita and McEwan's Atonement.