The Great Courses, Literature and the English Language, Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative

12 DVD set in 6 graphic holders. 64 different lectures by the renowned Professor Arnold Weinstein. 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 languageThe formal and generic conventions of literary productionThe position that literature occupies as a site for historical and ideological forces and conflictsThe continuing human significance of the great works of the past and the present.