The Great Courses - Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative - Arnold Weinstein

Arnold Weinstein

Category: Education

Narrator: Arnold Weinstein

Tags: Education, Documentary, Adults, Literature

The major texts of Western culture are a gateway to wisdom that can widen your views on self and society in enduring ways. The extraordinary body of literature given us by writers from antiquity to the present day, as Professor Weinstein notes, is potent stuff, serving not only as transcription of history but also as a verbal Pandoras box, capable of shedding light on those transactions which remain in the dark for many of us: love, death, fear, desire. We are talking about more than artful language; we are talking about the life of the past and the life of the world., It is truly a monumental legacy. And now you can examine its most important works - whether drama, poetry, or narrative - in this series of 64 penetrating lectures that reveal astonishing common ground. Youll see how this award-winning teacher uses several different analytical perspectives, including Feminism, Marxism, Freudianism, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, and New Historicism, to give us fresh insight into persisti