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The Western literary canon in context [Parts 1, 2 & 3]

Bowers, John M., 1949- (teacher,, speaker.). Gray, Jennifer, (producer.). Bowers, John M., 1949- Western literary canon in context, parts I-III, course guidebook. ©2008. (Added Author). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

Professor John M. Bowers discusses why some works and not others become part of the literary canon. He examines the context of the works, and how academic curriculum perpetuates and changes the development of the canon.

DVD  - 2008
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Subject
Canon (Literature)
Literature > History and criticism.
Genre
Video recordings.
Educational films.
  • ISBN: 1598034707
  • Physical Description videodisc
    6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2008]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Literature & English language."
Thirty-six lectures (30 min. each).
Course no.: 2120.
"Part 1 of 3, 12 lectures/30 minutes per lecture, 2 DVDs; Part 2 of 3, 12 lectures/30 minutes per lecture, 2 DVDs; Part 3 of 3, 12 lectures/30 minutes per lecture, 2 DVDs"--Container.
GMD: videodisc.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references in accompanying guidebook.
Formatted Contents Note: Disc 1. Lecture 1. The bible and the literary canon -- Lecture 2. The bible as literature -- Lecture 3. The epic of Gilgamesh: Western literature? -- Lecture 4. Homer's odyssey and the seafaring hero -- Lecture 5. The context of Athenian tragedy -- Lecture 6. Herodotus versus Thucydides -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Socrates and Plato: writing and reality -- Lecture 8. Aristotle's poetics: how we tell stories -- Lecture 9. Virgil's Aeneid and the epic of empire -- Lecture 10. Love interest: Ovid's metamorphoses -- Lecture 11. St. Augustine saves the classics -- Lecture 12. All literature in consolation: Boethius.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Producer, Jennifer Gray ; director.
Participant or Performer Note: Lecturer, John M. Bowers, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
System Details Note:
DVD.

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