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.
American Passages: A Literary Survey is a 16-part American literature course. The video programs, print guides, and Web site place literary movements and authors within the context of history and culture.
In this course, Dr. Belcher introduces you to the biblical books of Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Job, and Lamentations.
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.
This course examines texts from diverse cultural traditions in which protagonists confront their inherited identity of culture and language, providing a broader perspective on self-discovery in our own society.
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.