Turning Over a New Leaf; or, What Is Literature?
Part 1: Freedom and Order in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; Feeling Good and Feeling Bad: Emily Dickinson & Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Part 2: The Ordinary Is Wonderful, Too: Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt; The Strange and the Everyday: Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
Part 3: People and Novels: Sheldon Kranz’s Lessons; Aesthetic Realism consultations on Love; The Most Difficult Subject—& Style: Hemingway and Addison.
Part 4: Excitement and Calm, Energy and Repose: Henry James, Charles Dickens, and others.
In Process . . .
Short Stories
“The Betrayal,” from New Short Stories of 1944
Reports by Sheldon Kranz of Aesthetic Realism Classes taught by Eli Siegel
The Self & Aesthetics, Class of March 8, 1948
Play & Work, Class of March 29, 1948
Satire, Class of May 24, 1948
Languages, Class of September 13, 1948
The 1860s, Class of January 31, 1949
Tao Yuan-ming & Lafcadio Hearn, Class of July 10, 1968
