Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition: The complete course contains all 84 lectures
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    [synopsis] => From the anonymous author of the Epic of Gilgamesh in ancient Mesopotamia to William Faulkner writing about Mississippi 3,600 years later, many of Western culture's greatest figures have been writers. Their landmark themes, unique insights into human nature, dynamic characters, experimental storytelling techniques, and rich philosophical ideas helped create the vibrant storytelling methods we find reflected in today's authors. These 84 brilliant lectures survey more than 70 literary geniuses and masterpieces of Western literature, offering you the chance to experience a veritable encyclopedia of great writers who have played critical roles in Western history, influencing everything from religion to politics - to say nothing of the myriad literary genres and movements, which illustrate how writers reacted to their cultural environments and demonstrate the crucial relationship between a writer and his or her time. From Homer and Virgil to Cervantes and Milton to Dickens and Joyce, the featured texts and authors are so richly varied and cover so many different centuries, societies, literary movements, and genres, yet you'll discover a panorama of literary relationships between periods, authors, and the paths that brought us to where we are in literature today. Amid all the discussions from five highly esteemed professors, you'll return again and again to the idea of literature as a powerful force in our lives. You'll come away with a well-rounded and well-informed understanding of both these literary icons and the larger role that literature has played in our cultural history. The complete list of lecturers includes professors Elizabeth Vandiver, James A.W. Heffernan, Ronald B. Herzman, Susan Sage Heinzelman, and Thomas F.X. Noble.

All Lectures:
1. Foundations
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh
3. Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis
4. The Deuteronomistic History
5. Isaiah
6. Job
7. Homer - The Iliad
8. Homer - The Odyssey
9. Sappho and Pindar
10. Aeschylus
11. Sophocles
12. Euripides
13. Herodotus
14. Thucydides
15. Aristophanes
16. Plato
17. Menander and Hellenistic Literature
18. Catullus and Horace
19. Virgil
20. Ovid
21. Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch
22. Petronius and Apuleius
23. The Gospels
24. Augustine
25. Beowulf
26. The Song of Roland
27. El Cid
28. Tristan and Isolt
29. The Romance of the Rose
30. Dante Alighieri - Life and Works
31. Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
32. Petrarch
33. Giovanni Boccaccio
34. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
35. Geoffrey Chaucer - Life and Works
36. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
37. Christine de Pizan
38. Erasmus
39. Thomas More
40. Michel de Montaigne
41. François Rabelais
42. Christopher Marlowe
43. William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice
44. William Shakespeare - Hamlet
45. Lope de Vega
46. Miguel de Cervantes
47. John Milton
48. Blaise Pascal
49. Molière
50. Jean Racine
51. Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
52. Daniel Defoe
53. Alexander Pope
54. Jonathan Swift
55. Voltaire
56. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
57. Samuel Johnson
58. Denis Diderot
59. William Blake
60. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
61. William Wordsworth
62. Jane Austen
63. Stendhal
64. Herman Melville
65. Walt Whitman
66. Gustave Flaubert
67. Charles Dickens
68. Fyodor Dostoevsky
69. Leo Tolstoy
70. Mark Twain
71. Thomas Hardy
72. Oscar Wilde
73. Henry James
74. Joseph Conrad
75. William Butler Yeats
76. Marcel Proust
77. James Joyce
78. Franz Kafka
79. Virginia Woolf
80. William Faulkner
81. Bertolt Brecht
82. Albert Camus
83. Samuel Beckett
84. Conclusion
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