The course will be organized around various attempts to reinterpret the Judeo/Christian God, and to determine in what sense, if at all, such a God is still a living God.
Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it.
Most human lives contain major turning points: crises that transform an individual’s future development...
In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present.
The Swedish Academy, comprising 18 lifetime members, each year awards the Nobel Prize to the world’s greatest writer for a lifetime of writing achievement.
The Romantic period witnessed the birth of major new forms of writing and thinking that are still relevant today. The social transition from an age of commerce and colonialism to an era of industry and imperialism radically changed the entire surface of the world.
The true “hero” of this course is the logos, or word, of logical reasoning, as activated by Socratic dialogue.
Critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville.
This course examines major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales...
This course is a survey of American literature and literary history, from the early colonial period to the eve of the Civil War.