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The history of world literature, Grant L. Voth

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The history of world literature

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Grant L. Voth

The great courses. Literature & language. World literature

In this course, you'll sample some of the greatest literary expressions the world has known and experience storytelling in its many forms, including poetry, drama, and narrative

Stories and storytellers -- The epic of Gilgamesh -- The Hebrew Bible -- Homer's Iliad -- Homer's Odyssey -- Chinese classical literature -- Greek tragedy -- Virgil's Aeneid -- Bhagavad Gita -- The New Testament -- Beowulf -- Indian stories -- T'ang poetry -- Early Japanese poetry -- The tale of Genji -- Inferno, from Dante's Divine comedy -- Chaucer's The Canterbury tales -- 1001 nights -- Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey -- The Heptameron -- Shakespeare -- Cervantes's Don Quixote -- Molière's plays -- Voltaire's Candide -- Cao Zuequin's The story of the stone -- Goethe's Faust -- Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights -- Pushkin's Eugene Onegin -- Flaubert's Madame Bovary -- Dostoevsky's Notes from underground -- Twain's Huckleberry Finn -- Dickinson's poetry -- Ibsen and Chekhov, realist drama -- Rabindranath Tagore's stories and poems -- Higuchi Ichiyō's Child's play -- Proust's Remembrance of things past -- Joyce's Dubliners -- Kafka's "The metamorphosis -- Pirandello's Six characters -- Brecht's The good woman of Setzuan -- Anna Akhmatova's Requiem -- Kawabata Yasunari's Snow country -- Faulkner : two stories and a novel -- Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo trilogy -- Achebe's Things fall apart -- Beckett's plays -- Borges's Labyrinths -- Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories

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