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Naguib Mahfouz's “The Cairo Trilogy”
Lecture no. 44 from the course: The History of World Literature
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Taught by Professor Dr. Grant L. Voth | 31 min
The Arabs did not really have a novel tradition until the 20th century. In his career, Arab writer Naguib Mahfouz encompassed all of the novelistic traditions, from historical romances to Realist novels to experimental narratives.
48 Lectures
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Stories and Storytellers
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of 33 min
2
The “Epic of Gilgamesh”
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of 30 min
3
The Hebrew Bible
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of 30 min
4
Homer's “Iliad”
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of 30 min
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Homer's “Odyssey”
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of 29 min
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Chinese Classical Literature
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of 30 min
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Greek Tragedy
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of 30 min
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Virgil's “Aeneid”
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of 30 min
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Bhagavad Gita
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of 30 min
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The New Testament
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of 28 min
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“Beowulf”
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of 31 min
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Indian Stories
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of 30 min
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T'ang Poetry
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of 29 min
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Early Japanese Poetry
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of 30 min
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“The Tale of Genji”
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of 29 min
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“Inferno,” from Dante's “Divine Comedy”
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of 29 min
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Chaucer's “The Canterbury Tales”
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of 31 min
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“1001 Nights”
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of 30 min
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Wu Ch'eng-en's “Monkey”
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of 31 min
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The “Heptameron”
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of 30 min
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Shakespeare
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of 32 min
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Cervantes's “Don Quixote”
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of 31 min
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Molière's Plays
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Voltaire's “Candide”
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Cao Xueqin's “The Story of the Stone”
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Goethe's “Faust”
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of 32 min
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Emily Brontë “Wuthering Heights”
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Pushkin's “Eugene Onegin”
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of 32 min
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Flaubert's “Madame Bovary”
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Dostoevsky's “Notes from Underground”
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Twain's “Huckleberry Finn”
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of 30 min
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Dickinson's Poetry
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Ibsen and Chekhov-Realist Drama
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Rabindranath Tagore's Stories and Poems
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Higuchi Ichiy “Child's Play”
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of 31 min
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Proust's <"Remembrance of Things Past”
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of 31 min
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Joyce's “Dubliners”
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of 31 min
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Kafka's “The Metamorphosis”
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of 31 min
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Pirandello's “Six Characters”
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of 31 min
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Brecht's “The Good Woman of Setzuan”
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of 31 min
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Anna Akhmatova's “Requiem”
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Kawabata Yasunari's “Snow Country”
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of 31 min
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Faulkner-Two Stories and a Novel
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Naguib Mahfouz's “The Cairo Trilogy”
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Achebe's “Things Fall Apart”
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Beckett's Plays
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Borges's “Labyrinths”
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Rushdie's “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”
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