TY - ADVS AU - Heffernan,James A.W. AU - Heinzelman,Susan Sage AU - Herzman,Ronald B. AU - Noble,Thomas F.X. AU - Vandiver,Elizabeth ED - Teaching Company. TI - Great authors of the western literary tradition T2 - The great courses SN - 1565859774 : AV - DVD PN 86 .G73 2004 PY - 2004///] CY - Chantilly, Va. PB - Teaching Co. KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - American literature KW - English literature KW - European literature KW - Renaissance, 1450-1600 N1 - 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 N2 - This series presents some of the finest teachers in America, lecturing on some of the greatest literature ever written ER -