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This lively, 24-lecture course introduces you to the myriad ways in which we think about, talk about, and write sentences.

Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....

In this grand collection of 84 fascinating lectures, you'll get the chance to finally become familiar with America's true literary masterpieces....

What can we still learn from C.S. Lewis? Find out in these 12 insightful lectures that cover the author's spiritual autobiography, novels, and his scholarly writings....

Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul, and in this series of 36 insightful lectures you probe deeply into the extraordinary legacy that is Russian Literature itself....

Shakespeare's contributions to stage and language are unequaled, audiences left breathless for the past four centuries....

The ancient Greeks left the world that came after them - particularly our own and our ways of seeing it - an incalculable legacy....

These lectures offer a fascinating look at a form of enduring popularity and importance whose influence has been felt everywhere novels are read....

These 24 lectures have finally made a beguiling literary masterpiece accessible for anyone willing to give it a chance....

Witness the "works and wonders" of the ancient world through the eyes of its first great historian in this sparkling series of 24 lectures....

Myths provide the keys to truly grasping the ways that principles, rituals, codes, and taboos are woven into the fabric of a particular society or civilization....

The Aeneid is the great national epic of ancient Rome, and one of the most important works of literature ever written....

These 12 lectures will prepare you for the challenges of Chaucer's oeuvre, and will provide an understanding of what makes him the true "father" of English poetry....

These 12 lectures examine Milton's life and work in order to understand the richness and depth of his poetry....

The lectures take you beyond what is often offered in literary courses-plots, anecdotes, facts about where and when a novel was written....

Professor Perl invites you in these eight lectures to abandon your preconceptions and consider some of the most controversial authors of the 20th century: the Modernists....

You learn how drama makes visible the conflicts and wars of culture in ways other forms cannot manage....

Now, in a series of 24 incisive lectures by an honored and distinguished teacher, you can grasp how England's finest Romantic voices created their masterpieces....

Even when there has been a dominant preference for realism, generation after generation of readers have been drawn to stories of the fantastic.....

Professor Heinzelman shows how the relationship between literature and law gradually transformed into the distinct realms we recognize today....