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An Introduction to English Literature
Available on: Audio Download ($7.99)
Literature is the history of ideas. It is a reflection of thoughts, feelings and culture of a time and a place. What better place to start when learning about the world we live in?
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Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
by Harold Bloom
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love.
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A Way with Words, Part IV: Understanding Poetry
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
In part IV of this fascinating series, Professor Drout submerses listeners in poetry's past, present, and future.
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Sense and Sensuality
by Ravi Zacharias
Available on: Audio Download ($9.98) | Audio CD
Why versus Why Not? Why did God place us in a world full of pleasures if we aren't meant to perue them all?
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Greek Drama: Tragedy and Comedy
by Peter Meineck
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The plays of one ancient city 2,500 years ago by just four playwrights have had a profound effect on the development of all subsequent Western drama, not only on the theatrical stage, but on opera, film, television, stand-up comedy, and dance…
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Bard of the Middle Ages: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Had Geoffrey Chaucer not written, or not written so well, the last 600 years of English literature would have been decidedly different. His creative style and use of language served as one of the primary foundations on which later writers built.
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The Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov
by Liza Knapp
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Russian literature of the 19th century is among the richest, most profound, and most human traditions in the world. This course explores this tradition by focusing on four giants: Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov.
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Emily Dickinson & the Demon Lover
by Marion Woodman
Available on: Audio Download ($7.85)
The life of poet Emily Dickinson provides a window that opens to a world of obsession, creativity, and erotic yearning for the Beloved.
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Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The overwhelming success of the Lord of the Rings films and the Harry Potter series aptly demonstrates that the fantasy genre is alive and well in the new millennium.
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Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry
by Karen Karbiener
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
In this course, Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry, we'll explore how Walt Whitman broke with the tyranny of European literary forms to establish a broad, new voice for American poetry.
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