Giants of French Literature: Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus

• Giants of French Literature: Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus by Professor Katherine L. Elkins
• Publisher: Modern Scholar Audio Course Recorded Books, LLC 2009 | ISBN 9781440726101 9781440726071 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/128Kbps | 369 MB
• In this series of lectures, Professor Katherine Elkins details the lives and works of the premier French writers of the last two centuries. With keen insight into her subject material, Professor Elkins discusses the attributes that made classics of such works as Balzac's Human Comedy, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and Camus' The Stranger. Literary immortals all, these four French authors produced works that reflected their times and exerted a continuing and lasting influence on all the generations that followed.
• Lecture 1 Themes and Influence
• Lecture 2 Honoré de Balzac: Life and Early Work
• Lecture 3 Honoré de Balzac: The Wild Ass's Skin and Père Goriot
• Lecture 4 Honoré de Balzac: The Human Comedy
• Lecture 5 Flaubert: Life and Times
• Lecture 6 Flaubert's Madame Bovary
• Lecture 7 Flaubert's Sentimental Education
• Lecture 8 Proust: Life and Work
• Lecture 9 Proust: In Search of Lost Time, Part One
• Lecture 10 Proust: In Search of Lost Time, Part Two
• Lecture 11 Camus: Life and Work
• Lecture 12 Camus's The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus
• Lecture 13 Camus's The Plague, The Fall, and The First Man
• Lecture 14 Legacy and Questions Raised
• Professor Katherine L. Elkins
• (Kenyon College)
• Katherine L. Elkins is an associate professor of humanities at Kenyon College, where she teaches “Odyssey of the West” in the Integrated Program in the Humane Studies and where she has won a number of teaching awards. She also teaches intellectual and cultural history from the mid-nineteenth century...
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