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History of World Literature

Course No. 2300 (48 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)


Taught by Grant L. Voth


Monterey Peninsula College


Ph.D., Purdue University

As Professor Voth explains, "As long as there have been people in the world, there have been stories." In

this course, you'll sample some of the greatest literary expressions the world has known and experience storytelling in

its many forms, including poetry, drama, and narrative.

The course begins in the ancient world, where tribal bards created national myths and founded religious texts out of

legends, history, philosophy, and local lore. From there, you'll travel to the Far East to encounter the brief,

suggestive, and deeply personal lyric poets of Classical Japan and China.

You'll also wander the countryside and aristocratic courts of India and the Middle East, collecting stories and

folklore of magical men, terrifying beasts, alluring women, and conniving tricksters that live on in today's fairy tales

and bedtime stories.

Subsequent lectures follow the evolution of the art of the story as it appears in sophisticated narratives such as Wu

Ch'eng-en's Monkey and Voltaire's Candide; the poetic masterpiece of Dante's Inferno; the great drama pioneered by

Shakespeare and Molière; and other works of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment.

With the coming of the modern world, you'll trace the rise of Realism in the works of Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Chekhov,

and Ibsen and the development of experimental modes by Brecht, Beckett, Borges, Rushdie, and Pirandello.

Course Lecture Titles


1. Stories and Storytellers


2. The Epic of Gilgamesh


3. The Hebrew Bible


4. Homer's Iliad


5. Homer's Odyssey


6. Chinese Classical Literature


7. Greek Tragedy


8. Virgil's Aeneid


9. Bhagavad Gita


10. The New Testament


11. Beowulf


12. Indian Stories


13. T'ang Poetry


14. Early Japanese Poetry


15. The Tale of Genji


16. Inferno, from Dante's Divine Comedy


17. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales


18. 1001 Nights


19. Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey


20. The Heptameron


21. Shakespeare


22. Cervantes's Don Quixote


23. Molière's Plays


24. Voltaire's Candide


25. Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone


26. Goethe's Faust


27. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights


28. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin


29. Flaubert's Madame Bovary


30. Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground


31. Twain's Huckleberry Finn


32. Dickinson's Poetry


33. Ibsen and Chekhov—Realist Drama


34. Rabindranath Tagore's Stories and Poems


35. Higuchi Ichiyo's "Child's Play"


36. Proust's Remembrance of Things Past


37. Joyce's Dubliners


38. Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"


39. Pirandello's Six Characters


40. Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan


41. Anna Akhmatova's Requiem


42. Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country


43. Faulkner—Two Stories and a Novel


44. Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy


45. Achebe's Things Fall Apart


46. Beckett's Plays


47. Borges's Labyrinths


48. Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories

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