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Life Lessons From the Great Books

Fears, J. Rufus, 1945-2012. DVD - 2009 DVD 809 Fe Oversize 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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"Literature & English language"--Container.
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disc 1. Lecture 1. Seneca, On providence ; Lecture 2. The gospel of John ; Lecture 3. Boethius/Martin Luther King/Conscience ; Lecture 4. Dostoevsky, The brothers Karamazov ; Lecture 5. Elie Wiesel, Night -- Lecture 6. Schweitzer, Out of my life and thought ; disc 2. Lecture 7. Goethe, The sufferings of young Werther ; Lecture 8. Shakespeare, Hamlet ; Lecture 9. Sophocles, Ajax ; Lecture 10. Plato, Epistle VII ; Lecture 11. Cicero, On old age ; Lecture 12. Isaac Bashevis singer, The penitent --
disc 3. Lecture 13. Euripides, Alcestis ; Lecture 14. Euripides, Medea ; Lecture 15. Von Strasburg, Tristan and Isolde ; Lecture 16. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra ; Lecture 17. Shakespeare, Macbeth ; Lecture 18. Aldous Huxley, Brave new world ; disc 4. Lecture 19. Homer, Odyssey ; Lecture 20. Sophocles, Philoctetes ; Lecture 21. The song of Roland, chivalric adventure ; Lecture 22. Nibelungenlied, chivalric romance ; Lecture 23. Lewis and Clark, journals ; Lecture 24. T.E. Lawrence, Seven pillars of wisdom --
disc 5. Lectures 25. Aristophanes, comedies ; Lecture 26. Menaner, The grouch ; Lecture 27. Machiavelli, La mandragola ; Lecture 28. Erasmus, In praise of folly ; Lecture 29. Thomas More, Utopia ; Lecture 30. George Orwell, Animal farm ; disc 6. Lecture 31. Josephus, History of the Jewish War ; Lecture 32. Joseph Addison, Cato ; Lecture 33. George Washington, farewell address ; Lecture 34. Abraham Lincoln, George Patton, war ; Lecture 35. Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography ; Lecture 36. The wisdom of great books.
Professor J. Rufus Fears, lecturer, University of Oklahoma.
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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Great courses.



PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 6 videodiscs (ca. 1080 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (141 p. ; 22 cm.)
Language: English
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1598035177
9781598035179

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Fears, J. Rufus, 1945-2012.
Teaching Company.

SUBJECTS
Literature.
Philosophy in literature.
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.