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Library ed. |
| Description |
8 videodiscs (24 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide. |
| Series |
Great Courses (DVD) |
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Great courses (DVD). Literature & English language.
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| Note |
Course no. 2300. |
| Bibliography |
Course guidebooks include bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. 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. |
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Pt. 2. 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. Moliere's plays -- 24. Voltaire's Candide. |
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Pt. 3. 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 . |
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Pt. 4. 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. |
| Cast |
Taught by Professor Grant L. Voth, Monterey Peninsula College. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
DVDs. |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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DVD-Video discs.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
World literature |
| ISBN |
1598033603 (set) |
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9781598033601 (set) |
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