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Invitation to World Literature

Invitation to World Literature

This multimedia site from Annenberg Learning provides introductory videos, reading selections, slide shows, and various other resources (including audio glossaries and lists of reliable translations) to enrich the reading of thirteen works from various times and cultures. The included works are the Epic of Gilgamesh, My Name Is Red, the ...

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Keywords:
García Márquez, Things Fall Apart, Journey to the West, Pamuk, Odyssey, My Name Is Red, One Hundred Years of Solitude, world literature, God of Small Things, Voltaire, Gita, Bacchae, Achebe, Candide, Arundhati Roy, Thousand and One Nights, Gilgamesh, Genji, Homer, Euripides, Popol Vuh
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Material Type:
Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:
January 27, 2011
Date Modified in MERLOT:
June 6, 2023
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Submitter:
Rebecca Wall
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Primary Audience:
College General Ed, College Lower Division
Technical Format:
Website
Mobile Compatibility:
Not specified at this time
Technical Requirements:
Video is in Flash form and plays in the page with no download. A PDF viewer is needed. The site is intended to work with all browsers, but scripts and style sheet functions need to be enabled.
Language:
English
Cost Involved:
No
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Unknown
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No
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No

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Elizabeth Kuipers
Elizabeth Kuipers (Faculty)
2 years ago
This resource is full of useful teaching tools. In addition to the timelines and maps, the resource provides ideas for engaging critical discussions/responses for students. The videos provide significant background information and could be used in an online format as an introduction to the texts before students read, giving them an overview of the context and interpretations. I especially like that there are selections from the actual text built into the website.
Rebecca Wall
Rebecca Wall (Faculty)
8 years ago
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 to find episodes from multiple television versions.)
Used in course? Yes