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...
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.
In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present.
This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners.
This course is a survey of American literature and literary history, from the early colonial period to the eve of the Civil War.
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.
Critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville.
Course Description: German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film.