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The History Of World Literature

Grant L. Voth
4.36/5 (304 ratings)
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This is a series of 48 half-hour lectures by Professor Grant L Voth, professor emeritus of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Monterey Peninsula College. The course as a whole is the evolution of story telling; it explores cross-cultural themes, techniques, and modes of representation over nearly 5000 years of history.

Course Lecture Titles, 48 Lectures, 30 minutes / lecture
1. Stories and Storytellers
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh
3. The Hebrew Bible
4. Homer's Iliad
5. Homer's Odyssey
6. Chinese Classical Literature
7. Greek Tragedy
8. Virgil's Aeneid
9. Bhagavad Gita
10. The New Testament
11. Beowulf
12. Indian Stories
13. T'ang Poetry
14. Early Japanese Poetry
15. The Tale of Genji
16. Inferno, from Dante's Divine Comedy
17. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
18. 1001 Nights
19. Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey
20. The Heptameron
21. Shakespeare
22. Cervantes's Don Quixote
23. Molière's Plays
24. Voltaire's Candide
25. Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone
26. Goethe's Faust
27. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
28. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
29. Flaubert's Madame Bovary
30. Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground
31. Twain's Huckleberry Finn
32. Dickinson's Poetry
33. Ibsen and Chekhov—Realist Drama
34. Rabindranath Tagore's Stories and Poems
35. Higuchi Ichiyō's "Child's Play"
36. Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
37. Joyce's Dubliners
38. Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"
39. Pirandello's Six Characters
40. Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan
41. Anna Akhmatova's Requiem
42. Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country
43. Faulkner—Two Stories and a Novel
44. Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy
45. Achebe's Things Fall Apart
46. Beckett's Plays
47. Borges's Labyrinths
48. Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Format:
Audio CD
Pages:
24 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
The Great Courses
Edition:
Great Courses, #2300
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
159803359X
ISBN13:
9781598033595
kindle Asin:
159803359X

The History Of World Literature

Grant L. Voth
4.36/5 (304 ratings)
Read Download
This is a series of 48 half-hour lectures by Professor Grant L Voth, professor emeritus of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Monterey Peninsula College. The course as a whole is the evolution of story telling; it explores cross-cultural themes, techniques, and modes of representation over nearly 5000 years of history.

Course Lecture Titles, 48 Lectures, 30 minutes / lecture
1. Stories and Storytellers
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh
3. The Hebrew Bible
4. Homer's Iliad
5. Homer's Odyssey
6. Chinese Classical Literature
7. Greek Tragedy
8. Virgil's Aeneid
9. Bhagavad Gita
10. The New Testament
11. Beowulf
12. Indian Stories
13. T'ang Poetry
14. Early Japanese Poetry
15. The Tale of Genji
16. Inferno, from Dante's Divine Comedy
17. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
18. 1001 Nights
19. Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey
20. The Heptameron
21. Shakespeare
22. Cervantes's Don Quixote
23. Molière's Plays
24. Voltaire's Candide
25. Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone
26. Goethe's Faust
27. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
28. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
29. Flaubert's Madame Bovary
30. Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground
31. Twain's Huckleberry Finn
32. Dickinson's Poetry
33. Ibsen and Chekhov—Realist Drama
34. Rabindranath Tagore's Stories and Poems
35. Higuchi Ichiyō's "Child's Play"
36. Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
37. Joyce's Dubliners
38. Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"
39. Pirandello's Six Characters
40. Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan
41. Anna Akhmatova's Requiem
42. Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country
43. Faulkner—Two Stories and a Novel
44. Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy
45. Achebe's Things Fall Apart
46. Beckett's Plays
47. Borges's Labyrinths
48. Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Format:
Audio CD
Pages:
24 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
The Great Courses
Edition:
Great Courses, #2300
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
159803359X
ISBN13:
9781598033595
kindle Asin:
159803359X

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