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Meet your next audiobook: The Great Courses – The Western Literary Canon in Context written by John M. Bowers, Ph.D.. A solid pick in Lecture.

Among its more than 3,000 works are the Odyssey, Beowulf, Hamlet, and War and Peace—all of which have stood the test of time to become essential aspects of Western culture and our reading lives. Even if you haven’t read some of them, you’ve undoubtedly heard of them—their mere titles are synonymous with greatness. The Western literary canon has come to epitomize the official—and sometimes controversial—list of works that every educated person should know.

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  1. 1 00. The Professor's Biography 00:02:11
  2. 2 01. The Bible and the Literary Canon 00:30:38
  3. 3 02. The Bible as Literature 00:32:08
  4. 4 03. The Epic of Gilgamesh - Western Literature 00:31:36
  5. 5 04. Homer's Odyssey and the Seafaring Hero 00:31:02
  6. 6 05. The Context of Athenian Tragedy 00:29:59
  7. 7 06. Herodotus versus Thucydides 00:32:20
  8. 8 07. Socrates and Plato - Writing and Reality 00:30:58
  9. 9 08. Aristotle's Poetics - How We Tell Stories 00:31:58
  10. 10 09. Virgil's Aeneid and the Epic of Empire 00:28:56
  11. 11 10. Love Interest - Ovid's Metamorphoses 00:31:54
  12. 12 11. St. Augustine Saves the Classics 00:30:38
  13. 13 12. All Literature is Consolation - Boethius 00:31:56
  14. 14 13. Beowulf - The Fortunate Survivor 00:31:58
  15. 15 14. King Arthur, Politics, and Sir Gawain 00:31:47
  16. 16 15. Dante and the Canon of Christian Literature 00:31:58
  17. 17 16. Boccaccio - Ancient Masters, Modern Rivals 00:31:21
  18. 18 17. Chaucer - The Father of English Literature 00:31:02
  19. 19 18. ''Man for All Seasons'' - More and His Utopia 00:31:24
  20. 20 19. Hamlet - English Literature Goes Global 00:31:50
  21. 21 20. Brave New Worlds - Shakespeare's The Tempest 00:32:21
  22. 22 21. Cervantes's Don Quixote and the Novel 00:30:43
  23. 23 22. The Rebel as Hero - Milton's Paradise Lost 00:32:01
  24. 24 23. Voice of an Age - Voltaire's Candide 00:32:14
  25. 25 24. Pride and Prejudice - Women in the Canon 00:32:24
  26. 26 25. Nationalism and Culture in Goethe's Faust 00:30:33
  27. 27 26. Melville's Moby-Dick and Global Literature 00:31:24
  28. 28 27. Cult Classic - The Charterhouse of Parma 00:31:27
  29. 29 28. East Meets West in War and Peace 00:32:02
  30. 30 29. Joyce's Ulysses and the Avant-Garde 00:29:46
  31. 31 30. The Magic Mountain and Modern Institutions 00:31:09
  32. 32 31. Mrs. Dalloway and Post-War England 00:32:22
  33. 33 32. T. S. Eliot's Divine Comedy 00:32:03
  34. 34 33. Faulkner and the Great American Novel 00:31:25
  35. 35 34. Willa Cather and Mosaics of Identity 00:32:18
  36. 36 35. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - Literature 00:31:20
  37. 37 36. Postcolonialism - The Empire Writes Back 00:32:49

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