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Bard of the Middle Ages: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
by Michael Drout
Credits: Audio Download
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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An Introduction to English Literature
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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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
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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Emily Dickinson & the Demon Lover
by Marion Woodman
Credits: Audio Download
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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The Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov
by Liza Knapp
Credits: Audio Download
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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Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature
by Michael Drout
Credits: Audio Download
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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A Midsummer Night's Dream AudioLearn
Credits: Audio Download
From the Fairies to Hyppolyta, AudioLearn is your complete audio study guide to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History
by Eric H. Cline
Credits: Audio Download
The Trojan War, captured forever in Homer's epic poem the Iliad, resonates to the present day in the popular imagination, and this magnificent confrontation continues to exert a tremendous influence on modern audiences.
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Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry
by Karen Karbiener
Credits: Audio Download
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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The Literature of C.S. Lewis
by Timothy B. Shutt
Credits: Audio Download
C. S. Lewis produced a body of work as diverse as it is beloved. He is known the world over for his cherished Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also the author of novels for adults, scholarly work, and the writings that rival his Narnia series in terms of continued popularity: his eloquent defences of Christianity.
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Credits: Audio Download
After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly. His great novels burst upon the European literary scene like a succession of thunderbolts.
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Classical Mythology: The Romans
by Peter Meineck
Credits: Audio Download
Rome grew from a tiny community of small hill villages near the River Tiber in central Italy to one of the most powerful empires the world has seen. The Romans themselves believed that their great city was founded in the middle of the eighth century BCE.
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The Giants of Irish Literature: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett
by George O'Brien
Credits: Audio Download
Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett: These four masters of Irish literature created works of startling innovation and unparalleled literary merit.
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Heaven in a Wild Flower: The British Romantic Poets
by Adam Potkay
Credits: Audio Download
Professor Adam Potkay brings his renowned expertise on the Romantic era to bear on the period’s principal poets.
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What Stories Do We Need?
by Robert Bly
Credits: Audio Download
Robert Bly poet, storyteller and mythologist takes us on an imaginative and disturbing journey in this live recording.
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Hamlet AudioLearn
Credits: Audio Download
From the symbolism of Yorick’s skull to the mystery of death, AudioLearn is your complete audio study guide to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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Eternal Chalice: The Grail in Literature and Legend
by Monica Potkay
Credits: Audio Download
The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail.
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The Giants of French Literature: Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus
by Katherine Elkins
Credits: Audio Download
In this series of lectures, Professor Katherine Elkins details the lives and works of the premier French writers of the last two centuries.
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Shakespeare: Ten Great Comedies
by Raphael Shargel
Credits: Audio Download
Professor Raphael Shargel channels his passion for teaching and expertise as a Shakespearean scholar into this illuminative study of the Immortal Bard’s ten great comedies.
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From Here to Infinity: An Exploration of Science Fiction Literature
by Michael Drout
Credits: Audio Download
Science fiction literature and films have contributed indelible images to the popular imagination, from H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds to Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles to the fiction of "cyberpunks."
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Monsters, Gods, and Heroes
by Timothy B. Shutt
Credits: Audio Download
From the very outset in the West—from the time of Homer himself in about 750 BCE—the epic has been the most highly regarded of literary genres.
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Julius Caesar AudioLearn
Credits: Audio Download
From the Brutus to Octavius, AudioLearn is your complete audio study guide to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
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