The Literature Channel

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The YouTube channel of Professor Timothy H. Wilson of the University of Ottawa. This channel provides videos of some of my lectures on the history of English...

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Literary Theory An Introduction

Nietzsche and the Third Wave of Modernity

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales A Short Introduction to the Frame Narrative

Rousseau's Second Discourse A 10 Minute Introduction

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government A 5 Minute Introduction

Hobbes's Leviathan 10 Minute Introduction

Eighteenth-Century Literature An Introduction

What is Romanticism

Nietzsche's Political Philosophy An Overview

Nietzsche Contra the State Thus Spoke Zarathustra, On the New Idol

Chaucer's Truth A Close Reading

Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy Summary and Main Themes

Piers Plowman Summary and Main Themes

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Summary and Main Themes

Hugh of Saint Victor's Didascalicon and Medieval Literary Theory

The Medieval Christian Framework

Dante Alighieri and Four Levels of Interpretation Il Convivio and Letter to Can Grande

St. Augustine's On Christian Doctrine An Introduction

Renaissance Literature An Introduction (22)

Renaissance Literature An Introduction (12)

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra Infinite Variety

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales An Introduction (The General Prologue) (22)

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales An Introduction (12)

Medieval Literature An Introduction (33) (The Age of Chaucer)

Medieval Literature An Introduction (23) (Anglo-Norman Literature)

Medieval Literature An Introduction (13) (Anglo-Saxon, or Old English)

What is Literature Why is it a Humanities Discipline

Medieval Literary Theory Fourfold Method (Quadriga) (22)

Medieval Literary Theory Fourfold Method (Quadriga) (12)