Free Literature Courses

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.

This class is a study of Milton's poetry, with attention paid to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of English poetry.

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.

The true “hero” of this course is the logos, or word, of logical reasoning, as activated by Socratic dialogue.

This course will focus on recent novels that have been described by the term "magical realism." Magical realism engages the usual devises of narrative realism, but with a difference: the supernatural is an ordinary matter, an everyday occurrence, accepted and integrated into the rationality and materiality of literary realism.

This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners.