Great authors of the western literary tradition.
Features some of the finest college professors in America, lecturing on literature written from biblical times to the modern era.
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| Format: | CD Audio |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, Va. :
Teaching Co.,
[2004]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Near Eastern and Mediterranean foundations. Foundations ; The epic of Gilgamesh ; Genesis and the documentary hypothesis ; The Deuteronomistic history ; Isaiah ; Job ; Homer, the Iliad ; Homer, the Odyssey ; Sappho and Pindar ; Aeschylus ; Sophocles ; Euripides
- pt. 2. Literature of the classical world. Herodotus ; Thucydides ; Aristophanes ; Plato ; Menander and Hellenistic literature ; Catullus and Horace ; Virgil ; Ovid ; Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch ; Petronius and Apuleius ; The Gospels ; Augustine
- pt. 3. Literature of the Middle Ages. Beowulf ; The song of Roland ; El Cid ; Tristan and Isolt ; The romance of the rose ; Dante Alighieri, life and works ; Dante Alighieri, The divine comedy ; Petrarch ; Giovanni Boccaccio ; Sir Gawain and the green knight
- Geoffrey Chaucer, life and works
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury tales
- pt. 4. Literature of the Renaissance. Christine de Pizan ; Erasmus ; Thomas More ; Michel de Montaigne ; François Rabelais ; Christopher Marlowe ; William Shakespeare, The merchant of Venice ; William Shakespeare, Hamlet ; Lope de Vega ; Miguel de Cervantes ; John Milton ; Blaise Pascal
- pt. 5. Neoclassic literature and the 18th century. Molière ; Jean Racine ; Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz ; Daniel Defoe ; Alexander Pope ; Jonathan Swift ; Voltaire ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; Samuel Johnson ; Denis Diderot ; William Blake ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- pt. 6. Literature of the 19th century. William Wordsworth ; Jane Austen ; Stendhal ; Herman Melville ; Walt Whitman ; Gustave Flaubert ; Charles Dickens ; Fyodor Dostoevsky ; Leo Tolstoy ; Mark Twain ; Thomas Hardy ; Oscar Wilde
- pt. 7. Modern literature. Henry James ; Joseph Conrad ; William Butler Yeats ; Marcel Proust ; James Joyce ; Franz Kafka ; Virginia Woolf ; William Faulkner ; Bertolt Brecht ; Albert Camus ; Samuel Beckett ; Conclusion.