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The Novel: What It Is, What It's About, What It Does

Presents Clifton Fadiman discussing the elements common to all novels--plot, characters, setting, style, and form; and illustrates basic concepts through use of dramatic excerpts. Examples are used to distinguish between horizontal and vertical novels. Excerpts from Pride and Prejudice and A Farewell to Arms are used to emphasize the range in style executed by authors. Dramatizations of selections from Moby Dick and the works of Charles Dickens are used to illustrate the special qualities which set good novels apart from those that are simply entertaining. Uses specific examples to show the author's ability to create a world that is unique and complete, peopled with believable, living characters.

More in Humanities Series (Ebec)

  1. Hamlet: The Readiness Is All
  2. Huckleberry Finn: What Does Huckleberry Finn Say?,
  3. Oedipus Rex: The Character Of Oedipus
  4. "Our Town" and Our Universe 1959
  5. Hamlet: What Happens in Hamlet 1959
  6. Oedipus Rex: Age of Sophocles 1959
  7. Oedipus Rex: Man and God 1959
  8. Oedipus Rex: The Recovery of Oedipus 1959
  9. Our Town and Ourselves 1959
  10. The Theatre: One of the Humanities 1959
  11. Aristotle's Ethics -- Book I: The theory of happiness. 1962
  12. Art: What Is It? Why Is It? 1962
  13. Plato's apology : the life and teachings of Socrates 1962
  14. The Novel: Early Victorian England and Charles Dickens 1962
  15. The Novel: What It Is, What It's About, What It Does 1962
  16. Emperor and Slave--The Philosophy of Roman Stoicism 1964
  17. Macbeth, Part 1: Politics of Power 1964
  18. Macbeth, Part 2: The Themes of Macbeth 1964
  19. Macbeth, Part 3: The Secret'st Man 1964
  20. Huckleberry Finn: Huckleberry Finn and the American Experience 1965
  21. Huckleberry Finn: The Art of Huckleberry Finn 1965
  22. The Odyssey, Part 1: Structure of the Epic 1965
  23. The Odyssey, Part 3: The Central Themes 1965
  24. The Louvre: A Golden Prison 1966
  25. A doll's house by Henrik Ibsen : part 2, Ibsen's themes 1967

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, description, catalog record

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