Texts, Contexts, and Critical Reading

by Jessica Miller

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World Literature I: Texts, Contexts, and Critical Reading introduces major works from ancient civilizations through the Renaissance while developing students’ skills in close reading, literary analysis, academic writing, and cross-cultural interpretation.

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Los Angeles Harbor College
Subjects
Humanities
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Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Welcome to English 203
  7. 1.1: How to Use This Textbook
  8. 1.1: Course Learning Outcomes
  9. Introduction to Literary Analysis
  10. 1.1: MLA Guidelines
  11. 1: Unit I Origins of Storytelling and Epic Traditions
  12. 1.1: Unit I Introduction
  13. 1.2: Chapter 1 Reading World Literature
  14. 1.3: Chapter 2 The Epic of Gilgamesh
  15. 1.3.1: The Epic of Gilgamesh
  16. 1.4: Chapter 3 Ancient Hebrew Literature – Genesis (Selections)
  17. 1.4.1: Hebrew Bible - “Genesis” and “Exodus”
  18. 1.5: Chapter 4 Greek Mythology
  19. 1.6: Chapter 5 Homer – The Odyssey (Selections)
  20. 1.6.1: The Odyssey
  21. 1.7: Unit I Writing Workshop
  22. 1.8: Essay 1 The Hero Across Cultures
  23. 2: Unit II Classical Greece, Rome, and Eastern Philosophies
  24. 2.1: Unit II Introduction
  25. 2.2: Chapter 6 Sophocles – Antigone
  26. 2.2.1: Sophocles. Antigone (441 BC)
  27. 2.3: Chapter 7 Ovid – Metamorphoses (Selections)
  28. 2.3.1: Metamorphoses
  29. 2.4: Chapter 8 India – Bhagavad Gita
  30. 2.4.1: The Bhagavad Gita
  31. 2.5: Chapter 9 China – Analects and Tao Te Ching
  32. 2.5.1: The Analects
  33. 2.6: Unit II Writing Workshop
  34. 2.7: Essay 2 Duty, Justice, and Moral Responsibility
  35. 3: Unit III Medieval Worlds
  36. 3.1: Unit III Introduction
  37. 3.2: Chapter 10 Anglo-Saxon England – Beowulf
  38. 3.2.1: Beowulf
  39. 3.2.1.1: Beowulf (Parts I - XV)
  40. 3.2.1.2: Beowulf (Parts XVI - XXX)
  41. 3.2.1.3: Beowulf (Part XXXI - XLIII)
  42. 3.3: Chapter 11 Dante Alighieri – Inferno (Selections)
  43. 3.3.1: Cantos I-VIII of Dante's INFERNO
  44. 3.3.1.1: Professor's Introduction
  45. 3.3.1.2: CANTO 1
  46. 3.3.1.3: CANTO 2
  47. 3.3.1.4: CANTO 3
  48. 3.3.1.5: CANTO 4
  49. 3.3.1.6: CANTO 5
  50. 3.3.1.7: CANTO 6
  51. 3.3.1.8: CANTO 7
  52. 3.3.1.9: CANTO 8
  53. 3.4: Chapter 12 Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales (Selections)
  54. 3.4.1: Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales - The Miller's Tale
  55. 3.5: Unit III Writing Workshop
  56. 3.6: Essay 3 Medieval Views of Humanity
  57. 4: Unit IV Renaissance Humanism
  58. 4.1: Unit IV Introduction
  59. 4.2: Chapter 13 Renaissance Humanism
  60. 4.3: Chapter 14 William Shakespeare – Hamlet (or The Tempest)
  61. 4.3.1: Hamlet- Act 1, Scenes 1 and 2
  62. 4.4: Chapter 15 Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote (Selections)
  63. 4.4.1: CHAPTER VIII. OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED
  64. 4.5: Unit IV Writing Workshop
  65. 4.6: Essay 4 Literary Research Paper
  66. Back Matter
  67. Index
  68. Glossary
  69. Detailed Licensing