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Available
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Publication
Great Courses (2008), 18 hours, 36 lectures, 137 pages
Description
This course explores six themes that every one of us has experienced or will experience: the unconquerable human spirit; youth, old age, and all that is between; romance and love; adventure and courage; laughter and irony; and patriotism.
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LibraryThing member Sandydog1
This is an unusual TC lecture series. It is actually extremely light on analysis. Each lecture is a summary of a great book, as described, and often acted out, by Prof. Fears. The lecturer has many popularity awards from students. He's enthusiatic, dramatic, and, well, he's a total ham. Cicero,
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Erasmus, Orwell, Shakespeare, Milton, T. E. Lawrence, Euripides - each of the dozens of lectures was pure entertainment. Show Less
LibraryThing member margaretfield
Rufus J Fears is that crazy teacher. Everything he says makes you a little wary. He's willing to embellish the truth to make a point. BUT I have learned so much, felt so much, been so inspired by him.
Language
Original language
English
Local notes
[01] Seneca: On providence [02] Gospel of John [03] Boethius/Martin Luther King/Conscience [04] Dostoevsky: The brothers Karamazov [05] Elie Wiesel: Night [06] Schweitzer: Out of my life and thought [07] Goethe: The sufferings of young Werther [08] Shakespeare: Hamlet [09] Sophocles: Ajax [10] Plato: Epistle VII [11] Cicero: On old age [12] Isaac Bashevis singer: The penitent [13] Euripides: Alcestis [14] Euripides: Medea [15] Von Strasburg: Tristan and Isolde [16] Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra [17] Shakespeare: Macbeth [18] Aldous Huxley: Brave new world [19] Homer: Odyssey [20] Sophocles: Philoctetes [21] The song of Roland: chivalric adventure [22] Nibelungenlied: chivalric romance [23] Lewis and Clark: journals [24] T.E. Lawrence: Seven pillars of wisdom [25] Aristophanes: comedies [26] Menaner: The grouch [27] Machiavelli, La mandragola [28] Erasmus, In praise of folly [29] Thomas More: Utopia [30] George Orwell: Animal farm [31] Josephus: History of the Jewish War [32] Joseph Addison: Cato [33] George Washington, farewell address [34] Abraham Lincoln, George Patton, war [35] Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography [36] The wisdom of great books