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.

This course will compare and contrast the Greek, Medieval, and modern worlds, as reflected in their greatest literature...

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...

Lectures on Shakespeare and readings of his best works.

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

Gain an better understanding and appreciation for the works of T.S. Eliot, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century.

The course facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain. Students are also expected to read four of Cervantes' Exemplary Stories, Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook, and J.H. Elliott's Imperial Spain.

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.

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.