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.

In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present.

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...

This course is a survey of American literature and literary history, from the early colonial period to the eve of the Civil War.

This course focuses on Shakespeare’s later plays beginning with Measure for Measure and ending with The Tempest.

Works by major British authors representative of the romantic, Victorian, and modern periods.

During the previous two centuries, Russian speaking writers and composers have made extraordinary contributions to Russian literature and to the culture of the world.

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.

Built around Plato's Symposium, Shakespeare (including A Midsummer Night's Dream), Catholic writings (including Humanae Vitae), and several movies, this course explores the nature of romance and erotic love.