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World Literature: Your Guide to Becoming Very Well Read

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About World Literature: Your Guide to Becoming Very Well Read

Introduction

Project Gutenberg

The Lasting Impact of Classical Literature

Gods of Olympus 230623

Homer

Virgil

Herodotus

Suetonius

Based on the Bible: Quoted for Milennia

The Old Testament and Literature

Literature and the New Testament

The Bible & the Technology of Writing

Was there a real King Arthur?

The Progression of the Arthurian Myths

Characters of King Arthur’s Court

Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur

Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght

Fairy Tales

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen

Dante

Cervantes

Leo Tolstoy

Dostoevsky

Anton Chekhov

Boris Pasternak

Shakespeare

John Milton

Jane Austen

Charles Dickens

William Butler Yeats

James Joyce

Molière

Alexandre Dumas père

Victor Hugo

Albert Camus

Goethe sound fixed

Friedrich Schiller

Mark Twain

Louisa May Alcott

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Harper Lee

LM Montgomery

Margaret Atwood

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Esteban Echeverría

José Martí

Machado de Assis

Henry Savery

Jeannie Gunn

Africa Section Intro

Chinua Achebe

Wole Soyinka

Kofi Anoonor

Anthology of African Poems in French

Breyten Breytenbach

Introduction to Far Eastern Literature

The First Printing Presses

Confucius

The Tale of Genji

Kim Young ha

Asian writers section intro

Rabindranath Tagore

Saadat Hasan Manto

Monica Ali

Roma Tearne

Conclusion

What You Will Learn?

  • Do you really love to read? Do you want to be very widely read and understand key texts, literary movements and historical contexts in World Literature? Then this is the course for you..
  • This World Literature course is unique. Coming from a historicist perspective, it examines texts from across the world and from ancient times to the present day in their historical, political, philosophical and cultural contexts. After the course you will have a thorough knowledge of world literature and be able to discuss literature with the literati..
  • I am a lecturer at the C.S. Lewis Literary festival in Belfast. I hold a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from the Queen's University of Belfast (a Russell International Excellence Group University) and have taught at the Institute of Lifelong Learning at Queen's University, as well as being a writer and professional lyricist. I'm looking forward to being your guide through World Literature..
  • The course covers.
  • Greek and Roman mythology, history and epic poetry which still influences literature and popular culture today..
  • The influence of the Bible on texts ranging from Dryden's Absalom and Achiptophel to Steinbeck's East of Eden to Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings..
  • The growth of the Arthurian myths.
  • Fairy tales.
  • Key authors from different time periods in Europe, North and Latin America, Australia, Africa, the Far East and Asia..
  • Writers include Homer, Virgil, Malory, Dryden, Steinbeck, Cervantes, Dante, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harper Lee, L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Atwood, Jeannie Gunn, Machado de Assis, Juana Inés de la Cruz, José Martí, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Kofi Anoonor, Confucius, Kim Young-ha, Roma Tearne, Monica Ali, Rabindranath Tagore and many more..
  • This course is an epic journey with alot to discover on the way..