Literature and Form

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Lecture 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

Oxford University


    • May 21, 2012 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 51m AVG DURATION
    • 4 EPISODES


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    Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2012 60:57


    Dr 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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2012 50:59


    Dr 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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2012 49:14


    Dr. 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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2012 46:47


    Dr. 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.

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