The History of World Literature

by Grant L. Voth

Streaming video, 2007

Status

Available

Call number

809

Collections

Publication

The Great Courses (2007), 24 hours, 48 lectures

Description

In this course, you'll sample some of the greatest literary expressions the world has known and experience storytelling in its many forms, including poetry, drama, and narrative.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

6 inches

Local notes

*[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] Eary Japanese poetry [15] The Tale of Genji [16] Inferno, from Dante's Divine Comedy [17] Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales [18] 1001 Nights (One thousand and one nights) [19] Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey [20] The Heptameron [21] Shakespeare [22] Cervantes's Don Quixote [23] Moliere's plays [24] Voltaire's Candide [25] Cao Zuequin's The Story of the Stone [26] Goethe's Faust [37] Emily Bronte'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 Ichiyo'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

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