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Bowers, John M.
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Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation.
Socrates.
Aristotle. Poetics -- Influence.
Virgil. Aeneis.
Boethius, -524
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Canon (Literature) -- History and criticism.
Canon (Literature) -- Study and teaching.
Canon (Literature) -- Women authors.
Literature -- Study and teaching.
Literature -- Appreciation.
Bible as literature.
Classical literature -- History and criticism.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Classic fiction -- History and criticism.
Classic fiction -- Appreciation.
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
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Bowers, John M.
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation.
Socrates.
Aristotle. Poetics -- Influence.
Virgil. Aeneis.
Boethius, -524
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Canon (Literature) -- History and criticism.
Canon (Literature) -- Study and teaching.
Canon (Literature) -- Women authors.
Literature -- Study and teaching.
Literature -- Appreciation.
Bible as literature.
Classical literature -- History and criticism.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Classic fiction -- History and criticism.
Classic fiction -- Appreciation.
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
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The Western Literary Canon in context. Parts I-III [videorecording (DVD)] / John M. Bowers.
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Bowers, John M.
Teaching Co., c2008.
Call #:
DVD 801.3 B786w
Subjects
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation.
Socrates.
Aristotle. Poetics -- Influence.
Virgil. Aeneis.
Boethius,
-524
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Canon (Literature) -- History and criticism.
Canon (Literature) -- Study and teaching.
Canon (Literature) -- Women authors.
Literature -- Study and teaching.
Literature -- Appreciation.
Bible as literature.
Classical literature -- History and criticism.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Classic fiction -- History and criticism.
Classic fiction -- Appreciation.
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
Series
Great courses (DVD)
Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. English literature.
ISBN:
9781598034707 (set)
Alternate title:
Great Courses. The Western Literary Canon in context [videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Description:
6 videodiscs (18 hrs.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 209 p. ; 19 cm.).
Notes:
"36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Book contains lecture transcripts and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Home use only.
Contents:
Disc 1. The Bible and the Literary Canon -- The Bible as literature -- The Epic of Gilgamesh: Western literature? -- Homer's Odyssey and the Seafaring Hero -- The context of Athenian tragedy -- Herodotus versus Thucydides.
Disc 2. Socrates and Plato: writing and reality -- Aristotle's Poetics: how we tell stories -- Virgil's Aeneid and the Epic of Empire -- Love interest: Ovid's Metamorphoses -- St. Augustine saves the classics -- All literature is consolation: Boethius.
Disc 3. Beowulf: the fortunate survivor -- King Arthur, politics, and Sir Gawain -- Dante and the Canon of Christian literature -- Boccaccio: ancient masters, modern rivals -- Chaucer: the father of English literature -- "Man for all seasons": More and his Utopia.
Disc 4. Hamlet: English literature goes global -- Brave new worlds: Shakespeare's The Tempest -- Cervantes's Don Quixote and the novel -- The rebel as hero: Milton's Paradise Lost -- Voice of an age: Voltaire's Candide -- Pride and Prejudice: women in the Canon.
Disc 5. Nationalism and culture in Goethe's Faust -- Melville's Moby-Dick and global literature -- Cult classic: The Charterhouse of Parma -- East meets West in War and Peace -- Joyce's Ulysses and the avant-garde -- The Magic Mountain and modern institutions.
Disc 6. Mrs. Dalloway and post-war England -- T.S. Elliot's Divine Comedy -- Faulkner and the great American novel -- Willa Cather and mosaics of identity -- Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings: literature? -- Postcolonialism: the Empire writes back.
Performers:
Lecturer, Professor John M. Bowers (Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas).
Summary:
These 36 half-hour lectures ask what are the great books that every educated person show know, and why have these literary works - not others - achieved this status within the official lists of masterpieces? Why do some bestsellers stand the test of time? How does the academic curriculum perpetuate - and change - the development of the literary canon?
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