Great authors of the western literary tradition / Elizabeth Vandiver y otros.

Course no. 2100.

"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.

v. 1. Near Eastern and Mediterranean foundations / Professor Elizabeth Vandiver ; 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 / by Elizabeth Vandiver --
v. 2. Literature of the classical world / Professor Elizabeth Vandiver ; Herodotus ; Thucydides ; Aristophanes ; Plato ; Menander and hellenistic literature ; Catullus and Horace ; Virgil ; Ovid ; Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch ; Petronius and Apuleius ; The Gospels ; Augustine / by Elizabeth Vandiver --
v. 3. Literature of the Middle Ages / Professor Thomas F.X. Noble ; 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 / by Thomas F.X. Noble --
v. 4. Literature of the Renaissance / Professor Ronald B. Herzman ; Christine de Pizan ; Erasmus ; Thomas More ; Michel de Montaigne ; Franȯis Rabelais ; Christopher Marlowe ; William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice ; William Shakespeare: Hamlet ; Lope de Vega ; Miguel de Cervantes ; John Milton ; Blaise Pascal / by Ronald B. Herzman --
v. 5. Neoclassic literature and the 18th century / Professor Susan Sage Heinzelman ; Molir̈e ; Jean Racine ; Sister Juana Inš de la Cruz ; Daniel Defoe ; Alexander Pope ; Jonathan Swift ; Voltaire ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; Samuel Johnson ; Denis Diderot ; William Blake ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / by Susan Sage Heinzelman --
v. 6. Literature of the 19th century / Professor James A.W. Heffernan ; William Wordsworth ; Jane Austen ; Stendhal ; Herman Melville ; Walt Whitman ; Gustave Flaubert ; Charles Dickens ; Fyodor Dostoevsky ; Leo Tolstoy ; Mark Twain ; Thomas Hardy ; Oscar Wilde / by James A.W. Heffernan --
v. 7. Modern literature / Professor James A.W. Heffernan ; Henry James ; Joseph Conrad ; William Butler Yeats ; Marcel Proust ; James Joyce ; Franz Kafka ; Virginia Woolf ; William Faulkner ; Bertolt Brecht ; Albert Camus ; Samuel Beckett ; Conclusion / by James A.W. Heffernan.

Transcripts from lectures by some of the finest teachers in America on some of the greatest literature ever written. Surveys over 70 literary geniuses and masterpieces of Western literature. Examines the works, styles, themes and relationships with one another and the role they played both within the context of their own times and within the larger span of literary history.