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Title THE GIANTS OF IRISH LITERATURE [CDB UNABRIDGED] : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett / George O'Brien.
Author O'Brien, George.
Publication Info. Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2006.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Library Central  CDB 820.9 OBR    Check Shelves
Description 7 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (72 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.)
Series The modern scholar
System Details Compact disc.
Note Course guide includes bibliographical references.
Contents Lecture 1. Out of Ireland -- Lecture 2. Oscar Wilde: critic as artist, artist as critic -- Lecture 3. Oscar Wilde: social comedian -- Lecture 4. The life of Sebastian Melmoth -- Lecture 5. W.B. Yeats: from the Celtic twilight -- Lecture 6. W.B. Yeats: the national poet -- Lecture 7. W.B. Yeats: the triumph of failure -- Lecture 8. James Joyce: The Dublin winter -- Lecture 9. James Joyce: The European winter -- Lecture 10. James Joyce: The universal winter -- Lecture 11. Samuel Beckett: the absurdist -- Lecture 12. Beckett and the novel -- Lecture 13. Samuel Beckett: "Fail again. Fail better" -- Lecture 14. Tradition and its discontents.
Performer Professor George O'Brien, lecturer.
Subject Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- History and criticism.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- History and criticism.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- History and criticism.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
Irish literature -- History and criticism.
ISBN 1419388819 (set) : $87.75
1419388827 (course guide)
Music # UC080 Recorded Books
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