TTC - Western Literary Canon in Context(audio book)

Audio book | RS.com | 784 MB The Western literary canon has come to epitomize the official-and sometimes controversial-list of works that every educated person should know. Among its more than 3,000 works are the Odyssey, Beowulf, Hamlet, and War and Peace&-all of which have stood the test of time to become essential aspects of Western culture and our reading lives. Even if you haven't read some of them, you've undoubtedly heard of them-their mere titles are synonymous with greatness. But what exactly is the Western literary canon? Why does it contain certain works and not others? What is its history? What is its future? Most important: What do particular works in the Western canon tell us about the development of literature and civilization? You explore these and other thought-provoking questions in The Western Literary Canon in Context, a thorough investigation of more than 30 key works of the Western canon and the critical roles they played-and continue to play-in the development of Western literature. Over the course of 36 lectures, award-winning professor and author John M. Bowers of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas takes you from the formation of the Bible to the postcolonial literature of the late 20th century, revealing the exciting stories behind these classic works and their often surprising connections with one another. It's an insightful approach that will reshape your thoughts about the evolution of literature and will open your eyes to the hidden dialogue among Western civilization's most cherished and influential authors. Course Lecture Titles 1. The Bible and the Literary Canon 2. The Bible as Literature 3. The Epic of Gilgamesh-Western Literature? 4. Homer's Odyssey and the Seafaring Hero 5. The Context of Athenian Tragedy 6. Herodotus versus Thucydides 7. Socrates and Plato-Writing and Reality 8. Aristotle's Poetics-How We Tell Stories 9. Virgil's Aeneid and the Epic of Empire 10. Love Interest-Ovid's Metamorphoses 11. St. Augustine Saves the Classics 12. All Literature is Consolation&-Boethius 13. Beowulf-The Fortunate Survivor 14. King Arthur, Politics, and Sir Gawain 15. Dante and the Canon of Christian Literature 16. Boccaccio-Ancient Masters, Modern Rivals 17. Chaucer-The Father of English Literature 18. "Man for All Seasons-More and His Utopia 19. Hamlet-English Literature Goes Global 20. Brave New Worlds&-Shakespeare's The Tempest 21. Cervantes's Don Quixote and the Novel 22. The Rebel as Hero-Milton's Paradise Lost 23. Voice of an Age-Voltaire's Candide 24. Pride and Prejudice-Women in the Canon 25. Nationalism and Culture in Goethe's Faust 26. Melville's Moby-Dick and Global Literature 27. Cult Classic-The Charterhouse of Parma 28. East Meets West in War and Peace 29. Joyce's Ulysses and the Avant-Garde 30. The Magic Mountain and Modern Institutions 31. Mrs. Dalloway and Post-War England 32. T. S. Eliot's Divine Comedy 33. Faulkner and the Great American Novel 34. Willa Cather and Mosaics of Identity 35. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings—Literature? 36. Postcolonialism—The Empire Writes Back detail http://rapidshare.com/files/150030161/Western_Literary_Canon_in_Context_files.rar download Quote:http://rapidshare.com/files/150029516/ttc.western.literary.canon.in.c_www.softarchive.net.part01.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/150030575/ttc.western.literary.canon.in.c_www.softarchive.net.part02.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/150030428/ttc.western.literary.canon.in.c_www.softarchive.net.part03.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/150033469/ttc.western.literary.canon.in.c_www.softarchive.net.part04.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/150030125/ttc.western.literary.canon.in.c_www.softarchive.net.part05.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/150029222/ttc.western.literary.canon.in.c_www.softarchive.net.part06.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/150027863/ttc.western.literary.canon.in.c_www.softarchive.net.part07.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/150030035/ttc.western.literary.canon.in.c_www.softarchive.net.part08.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/150027840/ttc.western.literary.canon.in.c_www.softarchive.net.part09.rar