Understanding literature and life : drama, poetry and narrative /

Weinstein, Arnold Louis, 1940-

Understanding literature and life : drama, poetry and narrative / Drama, poetry and narrative Arnold Weinstein - Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 1995. - 6 videodiscs (ca. 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 218 p. ; 20 cm.) - Great courses (DVD). Literature & English language . - The Great courses . - The Great Courses .

Course no. 210.

Why literature : civilization and its discontents --
Oedipus the King and the nature of Greek tragedy --
Fate and free will --
Self-making vs. self-discovery in Oedipus --
The interpretive afterlife of Oedipus --
Shakespeare's Othello --
Poison in the ear, or the dismantling of Othello --
Rethinking Othello --
French theater and Moliere's comedy of vices --
Tartuffe and varieties of imposture.

Pt. 1 begins with Sophocles' Oedipus the King, and continues through Shakespeare and Moliere, on to the realist and naturalist work of the 19th century to close with Beckett's Waiting for Godot.


Education.
Teaching.
Educación
Enseñanza
Literatura--Historia y crítica
Poesía--Historia y crítica
Drama--Historia y crítica

LB 14.6 / W424u 1995

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