The History of World Literature

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Call Number: BOCD 809 Vo Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Lecture 1. Stories and storytellers -- lecture 2. The epic of Gilgamesh -- lecture 3. The Hebrew Bible -- lecture 4. Homer's Iliad -- lecture 5. Homer's Odyssey -- lecture 6. Chinese classical literature -- lecture 7. Greek tragedy -- lecture 8. Virgil's Aeneid -- lecture 9. Bhagavad Gita -- lecture 12. The New Testament -- lecture 11. Beowulf -- lecture 12. Indian stories --
Lecture 13. T'ang poetry -- lecture 14. Early Japanese poetry -- lecture 15. The tale of Genji -- lecture 16. Inferno, from Dante's Divine comedy -- lecture 17. Chaucer's The Canterbury tales -- lecture 18. 1001 nights -- lecture 19. Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey -- lecture 20. The Heptameron -- lecture 21. Shakespeare -- lecture 22. Cervantes's Don Quixote -- lecture 23. Molière's plays -- lecture 24. Voltaire's Candide --
Lecture 25. Cao Zuequin's The story of the stone -- lecture 26. Goethe's Faust -- lecture 27. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights -- lecture 28. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin -- lecture 29. Flaubert's Madame Bovary -- lecture 30. Dostoevsky's Notes from underground -- lecture 31. Twain's Huckleberry Finn -- lecture 32. Dickinson's poetry -- lecture 33. Ibsen and Chekhov, realist drama -- lecture 34. Rabindranath Tagore's stories and poems -- lecture 35. Higuchi Ichiyō's Child's play -- lecture 36. Proust's Remembrance of things past --
Lecture 37. Joyce's Dubliners -- lecture 38. Kafka's "The metamorphosis -- lecture 39. Pirandello's Six characters -- lecture 40. Brecht's The good woman of Setzuan -- lecture 41. Anna Akhmatova's Requiem -- lecture 42. Kawabata Yasunari's Snow country -- lecture 43. Faulkner-- two stories and a novel -- lecture 44. Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo trilogy -- lecture 45. Achebe's Things fall apart -- lecture 46. Beckett's plays -- lecture 47. Borges's Labyrinths -- lecture 48. Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories.
Taught by Professor Grant L. Voth, Monterey Peninsula College.
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.

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