Bibliograph

The Western literary canon in context, [taught by: Professor] John M. Bowers

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The Western literary canon in context, [taught by: Professor] John M. Bowers

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references in accompanying guidebook

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The Western literary canon in context

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263173178

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[taught by: Professor] John M. Bowers

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The great courses

Summary

Professor John M. Bowers discusses why some works and not others become part of the literary canon. He examines the context of the works, and how academic curriculum perpetuates and changes the development of the canon

Table Of Contents

Disc 1. Lecture 1. The bible and the literary canon -- Lecture 2. The bible as literature -- Lecture 3. The epic of Gilgamesh: Western literature? -- Lecture 4. Homer's odyssey and the seafaring hero -- Lecture 5. The context of Athenian tragedy -- Lecture 6. Herodotus versus Thucydides -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Socrates and Plato: writing and reality -- Lecture 8. Aristotle's poetics: how we tell stories -- Lecture 9. Virgil's Aeneid and the epic of empire -- Lecture 10. Love interest: Ovid's metamorphoses -- Lecture 11. St. Augustine saves the classics -- Lecture 12. All literature in consolation: BoethiusDisc 3. Lecture 13. Beowulf: the fortunate survivor -- Lecture 14. King Arthur, politics, and Sir Gawain -- Lecture 15. Dante and the canon of Christian literature -- Lecture 16. Boccaccio: ancient masters, modern rivals -- Lecture 17. Chaucer: the father of English literature -- Lecture 18. "Man for all seasons": More and his Utopia -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. Hamlet: English literature goes global -- Lecture 20. Brave new worlds: Shakespeare's The tempest -- Lecture 21. Cervantes's Don Quixote and the novel -- Lecture 22. The rebel as hero: Milton's paradise lost -- Lecture 23. Voice of an age: Voltaire's Candide -- Lecture 24. Pride and prejudice: women in the canonDisc 5. Lecture 25. Nationalism and culture in Goethe's Faust -- Lecture 26. Melville's Moby-Dick and global literature -- Lecture 27. Cult classic: The charterhouse of Parma -- Lecture 28. East meets West in War and peace -- Lecture 29. Joyce's Ulysses and the avant-garde -- Lecture 30. The magic mountain and modern institutions -- Disc 6. Lecture 31. Mrs. Dalloway and post-war England -- Lecture 32. T.S. Eliot's divine comedy -- Lecture 33. Faulkner and the great American novel -- Lecture 34. Willa Cather and mosaics of identity -- Lecture 35. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: literature? -- Lecture 36. Postcolonialism: the empire writes back

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