Great authors of the western literary tradition [videorecording]. - 2nd ed. - Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2004] - 14 videodiscs (ca. 2520 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + Course Guidebook (Parts 1-7 594 p.) 7 course guidebooks (22 cm.) ; - The great courses . - Great courses (DVD) .

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 -- Herodotus -- Thucydides -- Aristophanes -- Plato -- Menander and hellenistic literature -- Catullus and Horace -- Virgil -- Ovid -- Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch -- Petronius and Apuleius -- The Gospels -- Augustine -- 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 -- Christine de Pizan -- Erasmus -- Thomas More -- Michel de Montaigne -- Fran?is Rabelais -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice -- William Shakespeare: Hamlet -- Lope de Vega -- Miguel de Cervantes -- John Milton -- Blaise Pascal -- Molir?e -- Jean Racine -- Sister Juana In? de la Cruz -- Daniel Defoe -- Alexander Pope -- Jonathan Swift -- Voltaire -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Samuel Johnson -- Denis Diderot -- William Blake -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- William Wordsworth -- Jane Austen -- Stendha -- Herman Melville -- Walt Whitman -- Gustave Flaubert -- Charles Dickens -- Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Leo Tolstoy -- Mark Twain -- Thomas Hardy -- Oscar Wilde -- Henry James -- Joseph Conrad -- William Butler Yeats -- Marcel Proust -- James Joyce -- Franz Kafka -- Virginia Woolf --William Faulkner -- Bertolt Brecht -- Albert Camus -- Samuel Beckett -- Conclusion.

Lecturers: James A. W. Heffernan, Susan Sage Heinzelman, Ronald B. Herzman, Thomas F. X. Noble, Elizabeth Vandiver.

This series presents some of the finest teachers in America, lecturing on some of the greatest literature ever written.


DVD, region 1.

1565859774 : $749.95 9781565859777

2100 Teaching Company 2101--2107 Teaching Company


Literature--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.
European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

DVD PN 86 / .G73 2004