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Great authors of the Western literary tradition
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Transcripts from lectures by some of the finest teachers in America on some of the greatest literature ever written.
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- Near eastern and Mediterranean foundations
- Literature of the classical world
- Literature of the Middle Ages
- Literature of the Renaissance
- Neoclassic literature and the 18th century
- Literature of the 19th century
- Modern literature
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- English
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- Second edition
- Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2004]
- ©2004
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- 7 volumes ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781565859784, 1565859782
- OCLC
- ocm60655224
- "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Pt. 1. Near Eastern and Mediterranean foundations ; Foundations ; The Epic of Gilgamesh ; Genesis and the documentary hypothesis ; The Deuteronomistic history ; Isaiah ; Job ; Homer: the Iliad ; Homer: the Odyssey ; Sappho and Pindar ; Aeschylus ; Sophocles ; Euripides / by Elizabeth Vandiver -- pt. 2. Literature of the classical world ; Herodotus ; Thucydides ; Aristophanes ; Plato ; Menander and hellenistic literature ; Catullus and Horace ; Virgil ; Ovid ; Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch ; Petronius and Apuleius ; The Gospels ; Augustine / by Elizabeth Vandiver -- pt. 3. Literature of the Middle Ages ; Beowulf ; The Song of Roland ; El Cid ; Tristan and Isolt ; The Romance of the rose ; Dante Alighieri: Life and works ; Dante Alighieri: The Divine
- comedy ; Petrarch ; Giovanni Boccaccio ; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; Geoffrey Chaucer: Life and work ; Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales / by Thomas F.X. Noble -- pt. 4. Literature of the Renaissance ; Christine de Pizan ; Erasmus ; Thomas More ; Michel de Montaigne ; Franȯis Rabelais ; Christopher Marlowe ; William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice ; William Shakespeare: Hamlet ; Lope de Vega ; Miguel de Cervantes ; John Milton ; Blaise Pascal / by Ronald B. Herzman -- pt. 5. Neoclassic literature and the 18th century ; Molir̈e ; Jean Racine ; Sister Juana Inš de la Cruz ; Daniel Defoe ; Alexander Pope ; Jonathan Swift ; Voltaire ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; Samuel Johnson ; Denis Diderot ; William Blake ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / by Susan Sage Heinzelman -- pt. 6. Literature of the 19th century ; William Wordsworth ; Jane Austen ; Stendhal ; Herman Melville ; Walt Whitman ; Gustave Flaubert ; Charles Dickens ; Fyodor Dostoevsky ; Leo Tolstoy ; Mark Twain ; Thomas Hardy ; Oscar Wilde / by James A.W. Heffernan -- pt. 7. Modern literature ; Henry James ; Joseph Conrad ; William Butler Yeats ; Marcel Proust ; James Joyce ; Franz Kafka ; Virginia Woolf ; William Faulkner ; Bertolt Brecht ; Albert Camus ; Samuel Beckett ; Conclusion / by James A.W. Heffernan