Great authors of the Western literary tradition /
"This course spans 30 centuries of the finest literature ever written, from the epics and dramas of antiquity to the works of modern giants such as Goethe, Dickens, Joyce, and Faulkner"--wwwteach12.com.
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| Format: | Cassette Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[1996]
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| Series: | Great courses (Audiocassette)
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Introduction and the literature of ancient Greece and Jerusalem. lecture 1. The value of literature / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 2. The interpretation of literature / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 3. Introduction to Homer / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 4. Challenging the heroic code / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 5. Alpha and omega / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 6. Introduction to The odyssey / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 7. The uses of enchantment / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 8. Homecoming / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 9. The book of Job / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 10. Plato and poetry / Michael Sugrue
- pt. II. The literature of ancient Greece and Rome. lecture 1. Introduction to The oresteia / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 2. The Sophoclean hero / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 3. Complex Oedipus / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 4. The Bacchae / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 5. Thucydides and the dawn of history / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 6. Aristophanes and very old jokes / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 7. Introduction to Virgil / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 8. Aeneas, a new kind of hero / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 9. Ovid and The metamorphoses / S. Georgia Nugent ; lecture 10. The Neronian way of death / S. Georgia Nugent
- pt. III. Medieval literature and the birth of English. lecture 1. Studying the literature of the past / John Fleming ; lecture 2. Some conventions of medieval literature / John Fleming ; lecture 3. The English language then and now / John Fleming ; lecture 4. Beowulf and old English poetry / John Fleming ; lecture 5. The song of Roland / John Fleming ; lecture 6. Medieval romance and the stories of Arthur / John Fleming ; lecture 7. The troubadours / John Fleming ; lecture 8. The romance of the rose / John Fleming ; lecture 9. The poet of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / John Fleming ; lecture 10. Italian poets of the 14th century / John Fleming ; lecture 11. Chaucer : Troilus and Criseyde / John Fleming ; lecture 12. Chaucer : The Canterbury tales / John Fleming
- pt. IV. The literature of the Renaissance. lecture 1. Introduction to Renaissance literature / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 2. Dante's life and times / R. Herman and W. Cook ; lecture 3. Dante's literary antecedents / R. Herman and W. Cook ; lecture 4. Erasmus : In praise of folly / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 5. Introduction to Shakespeare / Peter Saccio ; lecture 6. Richard III : actor as villain / Dennis Huston ; lecture 7. Hamlet and the perplexing world / Peter Saccio ; lecture 8. Twelfth night and Shakespearean comedy / Peter Saccio ; lecture 9. Cervantes : Don Quixote / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 10. Milton : Paradise lost I / Peter Saccio ; lecture 11. Milton : Paradise lost II / Peter Saccio ; lecture 12. Pascal : Pensees / Michael Sugrue
- pt. V. Neoclassical and romantic literature. lecture 1. Introduction to 18th-century literature / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 2. Racine : Phedre / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 3. Molir̈e :The misanthrope / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 4. Defoe : Robinson Crusoe / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 5. Defoe : Moll Flanders / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture VI. Voltaire : Candide / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 7. Swift : Gulliver's travels / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 8. Sterne : Tristram Shandy / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 9. Rousseau : Confessions / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 10. Goethe : The sorrows of young Werther / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 11. Goethe : Faust / Michael Sugrue ; lecture 12. Stendhal : The red and the black / Victor Brombert
- pt. 6. Tthe 19th century : realism and naturalism. lecture 1. Introduction to 19th-century literature / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 2. Balzac : Pere Goriot / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 3. Austen : Pride and prejudice / Claudia Brodsky-Lacour ; lecture 4. Dickens : Bleak house / Claudia Brodsky-Lacour ; lecture 5. Melville : Moby dick / Claudia Brodsky-Lacour ; lecture 6. Brontë : Jane Eyre / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 7. Flaubert : Madame Bovary / Victor Brombert ; lecture 8. Tolstoy : The death of Ivan Ilych / Victor Brombert ; lecture 9. Ibsen / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 10. Strindberg / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 11. Conrad : Heart of darkness / Victor Brombert ; lecture 12. Mann : Death in Venice / Victor Brombert
- pt. VII. 20th century : modernism and existentialism. lecture 1. Introduction to 20th-century literature / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 2. Kafka : short stories / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 3. Kafka : short stories / Victor Brombert ; lecture 4. Proust : Remembrance of things past, part I / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 5. Proust : Remembrance of things past, part II / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 6. Joyce : Ulysses / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 7. Woolf : To the lighthouse / Victor Brombert ; lecture 8. Faulkner : The sound and the fury / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 9. Faulkner : Absalom, Absalom! / Arnold Weinstein ; lecture 10. Sartre : Nausea / Victor Brombert ; lecture 11. Camus : The plague / Victor Brombert ; lecture 12. Beckett : drama of alienation / Peter Saccio.