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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..