History of World Literature [audiobooks .mp3] [English] BigDadE

A History of World Literature Course No. 2300 (48 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Grant L. Voth Monterey Peninsula College Ph.D., Purdue University As Professor Voth explains, "As long as there have been people in the world, there have been stories." 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. The course begins in the ancient world, where tribal bards created national myths and founded religious texts out of legends, history, philosophy, and local lore. From there, you'll travel to the Far East to encounter the brief, suggestive, and deeply personal lyric poets of Classical Japan and China. You'll also wander the countryside and aristocratic courts of India and the Middle East, collecting stories and folklore of magical men, terrifying beasts, alluring women, and conniving tricksters that live on in today's fairy tales and bedtime stories. Subsequent lectures follow the evolution of the art of the story as it appears in sophisticated narratives such as Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey and Voltaire's Candide; the poetic masterpiece of Dante's Inferno; the great drama pioneered by Shakespeare and Molière; and other works of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. With the coming of the modern world, you'll trace the rise of Realism in the works of Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Ibsen and the development of experimental modes by Brecht, Beckett, Borges, Rushdie, and Pirandello. Course Lecture Titles: 1. Stories and Story Tellers 2. The Epic of Gilgamesh 3. The Hebrew Bible 4. Homer's Iliad 5. Homer's Odyssey 6. Chinese Classical Literature 7. Greek Tragedy 8. Virgil's Aeneid 9. Bhagavad Gita 10. The New Testament 11. Beowulf 12. Indian Stories 13. T'ang Poetry 14. Early Japanese Poetry 15. The Tale of Genji 16. Inferno, from Dante's Divine Comedy 17. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales 18. 1001 Nights 19. Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey 20. The Heptameron 21. Shakespeare 22. Cervantes's Don Quixote 23. Molière's Plays 24. Voltaire's Candide 25. Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone 26. Goethe's Faust 27. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights 28. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin 29. Flaubert's Madame Bovary 30. Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground 31. Twain's Huckleberry Finn 32. Dickinson's Poetry 33. Ibsen and Chekhov—Realist Drama 34. Rabindranath Tagore's Stories and Poems 35. Higuchi Ichiyo's "Child's Play" 36. Proust's Remembrance of Things Past 37. Joyce's Dubliners 38. Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" 39. Pirandello's Six Characters 40. Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan 41. Anna Akhmatova's Requiem 42. Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country 43. Faulkner—Two Stories and a Novel 44. Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy 45. Achebe's Things Fall Apart 46. Beckett's Plays 47. Borges's Labyrinths 48. Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories. All Files are MPEG Audio, (English) PDF Lecture Guide, (English) Enjoy and Seed!!

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chuzzlewit (2009-10-03)

A "History of World Literature" without Chuck Dickens???

daleel (2009-10-04)

Thanks for sharing this excellent upload and fast download! Look forward to sampling some of the classics!