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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the fourth part of an eight part lecture series on “Daniel Deronda,” Professor Ruth Wisse examines evilness in Henleigh Grandcourt and Mr. Lapidoth. An expert on Yiddish and Jewish literature and winner of the National Humanities Medal, Wisse discusses how Grandcourt symbolizes an aristocracy that loses its purpose before losing financial power. Bored, he exercises power over Gwendolen, who does not suspect his sadism. Mr. Lapidoth exploits...
2) Jane Austen
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This program looks at Austen and explores her personality by examining her correspondence and visiting the places she lived, in the process making a journey through the same glorious English countryside which Austen experienced for herself some 200 years ago.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This video covers the life of English author, poet, philosopher, courtier, and diplomat Geoffrey Chaucer to middle age. Chaucer's 14th-century saw him survive the Black Death as a child, the plague that wiped out a third of the population of Europe, and become actively involved, both as a soldier and later as a secret agent, in the 100 Years' War—a war that was to leave England devastated. Despite these man-made and natural catastrophes, English...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In this fabled classic 14th-century romantic poem, Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, takes up the Green Knight's challenge to strike him with an axe if the challenger will take a return blow in a year and a day. Sir Gawain accepts and cleaves off the Green Knight's head expecting him to die, but the Green Knight picks up his head and reminds Gawain to meet him in a year and a day, which he does—and the adventure is only just beginning....
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Tale of Robin Hood visits the areas where the outlaw is reputed to have roamed and examines the claims of the various candidates to be the real Robin Hood. With a wealth of location footage, it takes a fascinating look at law enforcement in the Middle Ages, including a visit to the prison cell where Robin Hood was reputedly imprisoned.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Using 3-D animation, location footage, archive materials, and interviews, the Beowulf epic is examined in the light of the civilization that created it. It investigates the Anglo-Saxons' religious beliefs as well as their everyday life and suggests that, old as the poem is, it may have roots in an even more ancient fertility cult.
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
On this episode of Camera Three, Padraic Colum, Frank O'Connor, and Tom Clancy examine Irish Literature from the 19th and 20th Century. Topics include William Butler Yeats, The Abbey Theater, John Millington Synge, James Joyce, Sean O'Casey, and contemporary trends in Irish plays and poetry.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This program traces the story of Christmas, from its origins in Nordic and Roman mid-winter celebrations, through the advance of Christianity, and up to the present day. It pays particular attention to the small book that came out at the end of 1843 and to the moment in time that Charles Dickens became involved in the progression of the mid-winter festivity and changed its course forever.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
With politics, religion, invention and the monarchy numbering amongst his targets, Jonathan Swift created a masterpiece that is a scathing satire on human nature. Visiting strange nations such as Lilliput and Brobdingnag, the program presents a fascinating study of the man, his life and works and the enduring effect he still has today as one of the world's foremost giants of literature.
15) Esther Waters
Pub. Date
[1948]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This 1948 film is based on the best-known novel of the Irish writer George Moore, known for his unflinching realism. It tells the story of a servant girl in Victoria England who is seduced by a squire and then abandoned. Alone and pregnant, she returns to London. There she struggles to raise her child on her own. Starring Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, and Cyril Cusack. Directed by Ian Dalrymple and Peter Proud.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Author George Eliot achieved mass popularity and was acclaimed by her literary contemporaries. In contrast, Marian Evans flouted Victorian conventions by living with a man she was unable to marry and by ceasing to attend church. She was refused entry into Victorian society. This documentary tells the story of Evans, from her pious Midland childhood and through her development into an independent-minded academic before emerging as the novelist George...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Phillip Pullman that includes Northern Lights, Subtle Knife, and Amber Spyglass. In this video, Philip Pullman talks extensively about his internationally acclaimed trilogy and his other body of work. This celebratory tribute to Pullman and his works is scripted by the eminent literature critic Nick Tucker.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children set in Narnia, a land of talking animals and mythical creatures that is ruled by the evil White Witch. The novel by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950, is the first published and best known of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia series.
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