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.
Professor Ken Hiltner surveys nearly 5000 thousand years of literature in order to explore the literary history of the relationship we have with our planet.
Most human lives contain major turning points: crises that transform an individual’s future development...
See beneath the surface of 13 great works of world literature that have traveled the globe with this course resource for teachers, students, and lovers of literature.
This course focuses on Shakespeare’s later plays beginning with Measure for Measure and ending with The Tempest.
In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present.
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.
Critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville.
Complete lecture series from U-M English Professor Ralph Williams's course on Shakespeare's Principal Plays. Recorded Fall Term 2008--Williams's final semester teaching this course at the University of Michigan.