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Disc. 1. Artful reading and everyday reading
Authors, real and impled
Narrators: their voices and their visions
Characters: beyond round and flat
Descriptions: people, places, and the things
Minimalists to maximalists to lyricists
Disc. 2. 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. 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
Disc. 4. Realism times four
Thumbs up? interpretation and evaluation
A Long short story
A Classic novel : the age of innocence
A Baggy monster: War and peace
Picking up the tools.
Authors, real and impled
Narrators: their voices and their visions
Characters: beyond round and flat
Descriptions: people, places, and the things
Minimalists to maximalists to lyricists
Disc. 2. 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. 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
Disc. 4. Realism times four
Thumbs up? interpretation and evaluation
A Long short story
A Classic novel : the age of innocence
A Baggy monster: War and peace
Picking up the tools.