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description: This is a series of 48 half-hour lectures by Professor Grant L Voth professor emeritus of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Monterey Peninsula College. The course as a whole is the evolution of story telling; it explores cross-cultural themes techniques and modes of representation over nearly 5000 years of history.Course Lecture Titles 48 Lectures 30 minutes / lecture1. Stories and Storytellers 2. The Epic of Gilgamesh3. The Hebrew Bible 4. Homer's Iliad 5. Homer's Odyssey 6. Chinese Classical Literature7. Greek Tragedy 8. Virgil's Aeneid 9. Bhagavad Gita 10. The New Testament11. Beowulf 12. Indian Stories 13. T'ang Poetry 14. Early Japanese Poetry15. The Tale of Genji 16. Inferno from Dante's Divine Comedy17. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales18. 1001 Nights 19. Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey20. The Heptameron 21. Shakespeare 22. Cervantes's Don Quixote23. Molire's Plays24. Voltaire's Candide 25. Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone 26. Goethe's Faust 27. Emily Bront's Wuthering Heights 28. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin 29. Flaubert's Madame Bovary30. Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground 31. Twain's Huckleberry Finn 32. Dickinson's Poetry 33. Ibsen and ChekhovRealist Drama 34. Rabindranath Tagore's Stories and Poems 35. Higuchi Ichiy's Child's Play 36. Proust's Remembrance of Things Past 37. Joyce's Dubliners 38. Kafka's The Metamorphosis39. Pirandello's Six Characters 40. Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan 41. Anna Akhmatova's Requiem 42. Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country 43. FaulknerTwo 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
language: English
title: The History Of World Literature
publisher: The Great Courses