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Invitation to World Literature: With David Damrosch, Mary Zimmerman, Daniel Mendelsohn, Michael Barry. See beneath the surface of 13 great works of world literature that have traveled the globe with this course resource for teachers, students, and lovers of literature.
Invitation to World Literature: Popol Vuh Video Transcript . Rocca: Sometimes you just want a creation myth that’s violent, blood-drenched, full of lies and deceit, the Popul Vu delivers. Hansen: It has all of the Intrigue of the human existence. Giron: The Popol Vuh holds the code of ethics was call Los Hombres Verdaderos, the real men ...
Journey to the West. The powerful and mischievous Stone Monkey King brings chaos to heaven and earth. Freed from a mountain prison in order to guard a Chinese monk on his journey to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures from India, Monkey seeks his own spiritual transformation. Modern performance, contemporary art, and Buddhist philosophers provide ...
Invitation to World Literature: Things Fall Apart Video Transcript. Damrosch: Things Fall Apart was probably the most important novel ever to have emerged from Africa. In this novel, Chinua Achebe gives westerners a view of Africa they’ve never seen before. Appiah: It’s a book that explores what happened when the reign began to beat us ...
I used the lessons on Popol Vuh, Journey to the West and Things Fall Apart with honors world literature classes, and I was surprised at how much students liked the materials, particularly the video introductions. The best thing, however, was that the series introduced me to Journey the West, a work the students and I both enjoyed very much.(If you decide to teach it, be sure to go to YouTube ...
See beneath the surface of 13 great works of world literature that have traveled the globe with this 13-part Annenberg Learner series for teachers, students, and lovers of literature. Great epics, plays, poetry, and other literary texts have made their way around the world through time and translation, and are still captivating audiences today.
Gilgamesh was his name from the day he was born, two-thirds of him god and one third human. It was the Lady of the Gods drew the form of his figure, While his build was perfected by divine Nudimmud. * * *. A triple cubit was his foot, half a rod his leg. Six cubits was his stride, … cubits the front part of his ….
