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Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry, and Narrative (The Great Courses, 210) (Audiobook) (Repost)

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Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry, and Narrative (The Great Courses, 210)  (Audiobook) (Repost)

Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry, and Narrative (The Great Courses, 210) (Audiobook) By Professor Arnold Weinstein
1995 | 32 hours and 51 mins | ISBN: 1598030973 | MP3 96 kbps | 1.38 GB


This course is an introduction to the major texts of Western culture. Ranging from antiquity to the present, it places special emphasis on several of literature's most important aspects: The uniqueness of literary language The formal and generic conventions of literary production The position that literature occupies as a site for historical and ideological forces and conflicts The continuing human significance of the great works of the past and the present. All too often, people fail to give the great books the attention they deserve. They might feel locked out of these masterpieces because they believe themselves unequipped to savor their richness. Or they might feel that great literature has only some antiquarian or museum value. This course empowers you to enter into these great works of the past. Taught by an extraordinary scholar and educator, it is a gratifying experience that can widen your views on self and society in enduring ways. Dr. Arnold Weinstein of Brown University has been honored as Brown's Best Teacher in the Humanities and has studied and taught at major universities all over the world. His remarkable ability to make a writer's voice come alive makes this one of our most exciting literature courses. And he has made a point of creating a wide-ranging, enriching experience. The course has been designed to exhibit not only the themes and techniques of great literature but also to expose both the power and limitations of several different analytic tools in assisting our understanding of these monuments of the human spirit, including: