| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
14 videodiscs (approximately 2520 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 7 course guidebooks (22 cm.). |
| Series |
The great courses. |
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The great courses.
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| System Details |
DVD, region 1. |
| Note |
Course No. 2100. |
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In 7 containers. |
| Performer |
Lecturers: James A. W. Heffernan, Susan Sage Heinzelman, Ronald B. Herzman, Thomas F. X. Noble, Elizabeth Vandiver. |
| Summary |
This series presents some of the finest teachers in America, lecturing on some of the greatest literature ever written. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1, disc 1. Lecture 1. Foundations -- lecture 2. The Epic of Gilgamesh -- lecture 3. Genesis and the documentary hypothesis -- lecture 4. The Deuteronomistic history -- lecture 5. Isaiah -- lecture 6. Job -- Pt. 1, disc 2. Lecture 7. Homer: the Iliad -- Lecture 8. Homer: the Odyssey -- Lecture 9. Sappho and Pindar -- Lecture 10. Aeschylus -- Lecture 11. Sophocles -- Lecture 12. Euripides -- |
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Pt. 2, disc 3. Lecture 13. Herodotus -- lecture 14. Thucydides -- lecture 15. Aristophanes -- lecture 16. Plato -- lecture 17. Menander and Hellenistic literature -- lecture 18. Catullus and Horace -- Pt. 2, disc 4. Lecture 19. Virgil -- lecture 20. Ovid -- lecture 21. Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch -- lecture 22. Petronius and Apuleius -- lecture 23. The Gospels -- lecture 24. Augustine -- |
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Pt. 3, disc 5. Lecture 25. Beowulf -- lecture 26. The Song of Roland -- lecture 27. El Cid -- lecture 28. Tristan and Isolt -- lecture 29. The Romance of the rose -- lecture 30. Dante Alighieri: Life and works -- Pt. 3, disc 6. Lecture 31. Dante Alighieri: The Divine comedy -- lecture 32. Petrarch --lecture 33. Giovanni Boccaccio -- lecture 34. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- lecture 35. Geoffrey Chaucer: Life and work -- lecture 36. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales -- |
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Pt. 4, disc 7. Lecture 37. Christine de Pizan -- lecture 38. Erasmus -- lecture 39. Thomas More -- lecture 40. Michel de Montaigne -- lecture 41. Franȯis Rabelais -- lecture 42. Christopher Marlowe -- Pt. 4, disc 8. Lecture 43. William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice -- lecture 44. William Shakespeare: Hamlet -- lecture 45. Lope de Vega -- lecture 46. Miguel de Cervantes -- lecture 47. John Milton -- lecture 48. Blaise Pascal -- |
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Pt. 5, disc 9. Lecture 49. Molière -- lectue 50. Jean Racine -- lecture 51. Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz -- lecture 52. Daniel Defoe -- lecture 53. Alexander Pope -- lecture 54. Jonathan Swift -- Pt. 5, disc 10. Lectire 55. Voltaire -- lecture 56. Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- lecture 57. Samuel Johnson -- lecture 58. Denis Diderot -- lecture 59. William Blake -- lecture 60. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - |
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Pt. 6, disc 11. Lecture 61. William Wordsworth -- lecture 62. Jane Austen -- lecture 63. Stendhal -- lecture 64. Herman Melville -- lecture 65. Walt Whitman -- lecture 66. Gustave Flaubert -- Pt. 5, disc 12. Lecture 67. Charles Dickens -- lecture 68. Fyodor Dostoevsky -- lecture 69. Leo Tolstoy --lecture 70. Mark Twain -- lecture 71. Thomas Hardy -- lecture 72. Oscar Wilde -- |
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Pt. 7, disc 13. Lecture 73. Henry James -- lecture 74. Joseph Conrad -- lecture 75. William Butler Yeats -- lecture 76. Marcel Proust -- lecture 77. James Joyce --lecture 78. Franz Kafka -- Pt. 7, disc 12. Lecture 79. Virginia Woolf -- lecture 80. William Faulkner -- lecture 81. Bertolt Brecht -- lecture 82. Albert Camus -- lecture 83. Samuel Beckett -- lecture 84. Conclusion. |
| Note |
GMD: DVD videorecording. |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
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| Added Author |
Heffernan, James A. W.
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Heinzelman, Susan Sage.
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Herzman, Ronald B.
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Noble, Thomas F. X.
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Vandiver, Elizabeth, 1956-
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1565859774 : $749.95 |
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9781565859777 |
| Music No. |
2100 |
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2101--2107 |
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