The Resource Great authors of the western literary tradition, (videorecording)
Great authors of the western literary tradition, (videorecording)
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The item Great authors of the western literary tradition, (videorecording) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- 14 videodiscs (approximately 2520 min.)
- Note
-
- 84 lectures (30 min. each)
- Course no. 2100
- Contents
-
- pt. I. Near Eastern and Mediterranean foundations / taught by 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
- pt. II. Literature of the classical world / taught by 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
- pt. III. Literature of the Middle Ages / taught by 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 works -- Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales
- pt. IV. Literature of the Renaissance / taught by 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
- pt. V. Neoclassic literature and the 18th century / taught by Professor Susan Sage Heinzelman. Moliére -- Jean Racine -- Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz -- Daniel Defoe -- Alexander Pope -- Jonathan Swift -- Voltaire -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Samuel Johnson -- Denis Diderot -- William Blake -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- pt. VI. Literature of the 19th century / taught by 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
- pt. VII. Modern literature / taught by 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
- Isbn
- 9781565859777
- Label
- Great authors of the western literary tradition
- Title
- Great authors of the western literary tradition
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- CMT
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Dewey number
- 809
- LC call number
- PN524
- LC item number
- .G74 2004
- PerformerNote
- Lecturers: James A.W. Heffernan, Susan Sage Heinzelman, Ronald B. Herzman, Thomas F.X. Noble, Elizabeth Vandiver
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1956-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Heffernan, James A. W
- Heinzelman, Susan Sage
- Herzman, Ronald B
- Noble, Thomas F. X
- Vandiver, Elizabeth
- Teaching Company
- Runtime
- 0
- Series statement
- The great courses. Literature and English language
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Literature
- Classical literature
- American literature
- English literature
- European literature
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- Great authors of the western literary tradition, (videorecording)
- Note
-
- 84 lectures (30 min. each)
- Course no. 2100
- Accompanying material
- 1 course guidebook (xii, 599 pages ; 19 cm).
- Bar code
-
- 31223126219683
- 31223126219675
- 31223126219691
- Carrier category
- videodisc
- Carrier category code
-
- vd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- pt. I. Near Eastern and Mediterranean foundations / taught by 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
- pt. II. Literature of the classical world / taught by 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
- pt. III. Literature of the Middle Ages / taught by 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 works -- Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales
- pt. IV. Literature of the Renaissance / taught by 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
- pt. V. Neoclassic literature and the 18th century / taught by Professor Susan Sage Heinzelman. Moliére -- Jean Racine -- Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz -- Daniel Defoe -- Alexander Pope -- Jonathan Swift -- Voltaire -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Samuel Johnson -- Denis Diderot -- William Blake -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- pt. VI. Literature of the 19th century / taught by 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
- pt. VII. Modern literature / taught by 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
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. +
- Dimensions
- other
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- 14 videodiscs (approximately 2520 min.)
- Isbn
- 9781565859777
- Media category
- video
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other physical details
- sound, color
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
- (OCoLC)911517964
- System details
- DVD
- Video recording format
- DVD
- Label
- Great authors of the western literary tradition, (videorecording)
- Note
-
- 84 lectures (30 min. each)
- Course no. 2100
- Accompanying material
- 1 course guidebook (xii, 599 pages ; 19 cm).
- Bar code
-
- 31223126219683
- 31223126219675
- 31223126219691
- Carrier category
- videodisc
- Carrier category code
-
- vd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- pt. I. Near Eastern and Mediterranean foundations / taught by 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
- pt. II. Literature of the classical world / taught by 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
- pt. III. Literature of the Middle Ages / taught by 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 works -- Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales
- pt. IV. Literature of the Renaissance / taught by 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
- pt. V. Neoclassic literature and the 18th century / taught by Professor Susan Sage Heinzelman. Moliére -- Jean Racine -- Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz -- Daniel Defoe -- Alexander Pope -- Jonathan Swift -- Voltaire -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Samuel Johnson -- Denis Diderot -- William Blake -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- pt. VI. Literature of the 19th century / taught by 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
- pt. VII. Modern literature / taught by 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
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. +
- Dimensions
- other
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- 14 videodiscs (approximately 2520 min.)
- Isbn
- 9781565859777
- Media category
- video
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- Medium for sound
- videodisc
- Other physical details
- sound, color
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
- videodisc
- System control number
- (OCoLC)911517964
- System details
- DVD
- Video recording format
- DVD
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