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The Great Gatsby at 100
- De: Sheila Liming, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Sheila Liming
- Duración: 2 h y 48 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
In the six lectures of The Great Gatsby at 100, you will join Sheila Liming of Champlain College to revisit the context and culture of the Roaring ‘20s, which inspired the story of the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his disastrous pursuit of Daisy Buchanan. As you’ll discover, while Gatsby is framed as a love story, it’s also a story of the American experience, revealing the unspoken rules of wealth and class and the false promises of self-made success in a world of Old Money privilege.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Warning: A Woke Perspective
- De P. Steele en 04-23-25
- The Great Gatsby at 100
- De: Sheila Liming, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Sheila Liming
Anachronistic scholarship
Revisado: 04-26-25
Mediocre arguments based more on theory than text evidence culminate in chapter 3, on Gender. The lecturer makes an argument that Gatsby’s “pink suit” sets up Gatsby as a sort of attack on traditional masculinity.
The problem with this line of thinking is that Pink was much more associated with masculinity until the 1940’s and really the 1950’s. Just google it.
The one piece of text evidence cited for their argument is misread. Astoundingly poor scholarship. I’m amazed this was published.
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Brideshead Revisited
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Jeremy Irons
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,373
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,061
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,041
Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated work is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the story mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary
- De Vieux Carré Blonde en 12-12-12
- Brideshead Revisited
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Jeremy Irons
A Story about the Faith of Sinners
Revisado: 08-03-23
This book deals with the sort of deficient people that are real and resemble the reader. Alcoholics, people who struggle with being a parent, being faithful, being trapped in a marriage, being honest. This story doesn’t dress anyone up, and is grounded to the reality of the human condition. There are no great saints or great sinners in this book, just people. Their stories, and in particular their struggle with Christianity, are told in gorgeous realism.
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