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.

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.

John Green teaches you literature! Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and Poetry featuring Emily Dickinson.

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

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

In this subject we explore Greek and Roman mythology, with particular reference to some core narratives and themes. Greek mythology is very focused around hero myths, and this is a central aspect of our study. Heroes studied in the subject include Heracles, Jason, Perseus, Bellerophon and Odysseus