Television shows of the past decade. This is 20 minutes. And now on book tv we want to introduce you to university of virginia professor paul cantor who is also an author. Professor, before we get into your most recent book, what do you teach at the university of virginia . Guest i teach World Literature all the way from homer. I teach a course called fiction vampire. Kipling, all the books that came out of the british empire. A lot of different things. Also shakespeare. Mostly about shakespeare. Host can you make connections between all of those . Guest that is my perfection profession. Host what is one of the connections that you make . Guest i am generally interested in politics and how people perceive politics. These things go all the way from homer to the american western. So i have an essay that compares the great trilogy. And theyre both stories about revenge the stories the restore the boundaries between civilization, barbarism. Im really interested in how things change over ti