disc 1. Lectures 1-6. Artful reading and everyday reading
Narrators : their voices and their visions
Characters : beyond round and flat
Descriptions : people, places, and the things
Minimalists to maximalists to lyricists
disc 2. Lectures 7-12. 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. Lectures 13-18. 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
Lectures 19-24. Realism times four
Thumbs up? : interpretation and evaluation
A classic novel : The age of innocence
A baggy monster : War and peace
