Shakespeare: The Word and the Action The Great Courses
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Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry, Narrative
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This course is an introduction to the major texts of Western culture, from antiquity onward. It stresses the uniqueness of literary language, the formal and generic conventions of writing, the position that literature occupies as a site for historical and ideological conflicts, and the continuing human significance of the great works of the past and present.
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Audiobook: September 13, 2023
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