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    (By Grant L. Voth)

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    Author Grant L. Voth
    “Book Descriptions: This is a series of 48 half-hour lectures by Professor Grant L Voth, professor emeritus of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Monterey Peninsula College. The course as a whole is the evolution of story telling; it explores cross-cultural themes, techniques, and modes of representation over nearly 5000 years of history.

    Course Lecture Titles, 48 Lectures, 30 minutes / lecture
    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 Ichiyō'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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