Mudrick Transcribed
Classes and Talks
Published on 1. January 2018
415 pages
978-1-61472-870-2 (ISBN)
Description
Mudrick Transcribed: Classes and Talks exists only because of the diligence and ingenuity of a student, Lance Kaplan, who recorded some of Marvin Mudrick's classes on cassette tapes. After Mudrick's untimely death in 1986, Kaplan began to transcribe and edit the recordings. "Transcribe" and "edit" are, however, inadequate words to describe the creation of this extraordinary book, which is a kind of miracle of attention. It is entertaining, freakishly smart, and full of love-a love of life, books, music, and people. The transcriptions include a class on eighteenth-century English prose, a class on the writing of narrative prose, two interviews about the College of Creative Studies, and talks on literary criticism, artistic response, genius, and the craft of teaching. The only volume that has never been commercially published, this may well be the gem of the Berkshire Classics Mudrick collection.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Life on the Page
- Reading with Marvin Mudrick
- Dedication
- Preface
- "Why in the World Else Would You Be a Lit Major?"
- Week One
- Week Three
- Week Four
- Week Six
- Week Seven
- From a Class on the Writing of Narrative Prose
- Fall 1983
- Week One
- Week Two
- Week Seven
- Spring 1983
- Spring 1985
- Week Six
- Week Nine
- Week Ten
- Litcrit: If You Haven't Tried It Don't Knock It
- "Teaching Is My Hobby"
- From the First Meeting of a Class on Johnson and Boswell
- Am I Enjoying Myself Yet?
- An Interview
- From a Class in Letters
- A Debate With Susan Sontag
- A Heretic in the University
- "Ikey, Ikey, What'll Ya Learn in School Today?"
- A Commencement Speech
- Genius and Anti-genius
- Appendix: List of Publications
- The Return of Marvin Mudrick
- About Marvin Mudrick
- About James Raimes
- Index
