1.
The Bible and the Literary Canon
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The Bible as Literature
3.
The Epic of Gilgamesh — Western Literature?
4.
Homer's Odyssey and the Seafaring Hero
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The Context of Athenian Tragedy
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides
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Socrates and Plato — Writing and Reality
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Aristotle's Poetics — How We Tell Stories
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Virgil's Aeneid and the Epic of Empire
10.
Love Interest — Ovid's Metamorphoses
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St. Augustine Saves the Classics
12.
All Literature Is Consolation — Boethius
13.
Beowulf — The Fortunate Survivor
14.
King Arthur, Politics, and Sir Gawain
15.
Dante and the Canon of Christian Literature
16.
Boccaccio — Ancient Masters, Modern Rivals
17.
Chaucer — The Father of English Literature
18.
"Man for All Seasons" — More and His Utopia
19.
Hamlet — English Literature Goes Global
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Brave New Worlds — Shakespeare's the Tempest
21.
Cervantes's Don Quixote and the Novel
22.
The Rebel as Hero — Milton's Paradise Lost
23.
Voice of an Age — Voltaire's Candide
24.
Pride and Prejudice — Women in the Canon
25.
Nationalism and Culture in Goethe's Faust
26.
Melville's Moby-Dick and Global Literature
27.
Cult Classic — The Charterhouse of Parma
28.
East Meets West in War and Peace
29.
Joyce's Ulysses and the Avant-Garde
30.
The Magic Mountain and Modern Institutions
31.
Mrs. Dalloway and Post-War England
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T.S. Eliot's Divine Comedy
33.
Faulkner and the Great American Novel
34.
Willa Cather and Mosaics of Identity
35.
Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings — Literature?
36.
Postcolonialism — The Empire Writes Back