Literature Degrees

...the medieval prophecy that he would be rex quondam et futurus: the once and future king. Lectures: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session As a quasi-historical...

...Through Arthurian romances, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, love letters, mystical visions, and more, we will explore medieval attitudes toward marriage...

...and works of lay authors - transformed the course of much of Western literature for the next five centuries. Readings will include the entire Divine Comedy...

...the Fall of the Roman Empire, the growth of religious communities, the shift from orality to literacy, the culture of chivalry and courtly...

...across real or fantastic landscapes. Finally, voyages of exploration served Renaissance writers as a metaphor: for intellectual inquiry, for spiritual development... Learn about: Renaissance Literature...

...products of our experience just as readily supported the conviction that we are nothing more than machines acting out lives whose destinies we do not control...

...What is their relationship to the time and place in which they appeared? How have they changed over the years? And, most of all, why do we like to read them so much?...

...these writers conveyed a spirit of chaos and upheaval even in stories whose settings are seemingly farthest removed from those cataclysmic historical events...

...but I require you to have read the texts thoroughly and to come to class prepared to talk about them. Failure to attend classes will negatively affect your grade...

...To use a phrase of Balzac's, serious fiction deals with "what happens everywhere". (2) This idea sometimes goes with another: that the most significant...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session The course covers British literature and culture during Queen Victoria’s long reign, 1837-1901... Learn about: British Literature...

...should use the editions specified here. Books on order (in order in which they will be used): Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)...

...has been composed during the past century. Many of these plays are now acknowledged "classics" of modern drama; the rest are prize-winning contemporary... Learn about: Office IT, Ms Office...

...2 sessions / week; 1.5 hours / session None Exploring a new city is a bit like opening a book for the first time. A new world opens up, and we must... Learn about: Contemporary Literature...

...sometimes clashing – that are currently engaged in producing accounts of people in the developing world: their hardships, laughter, and courage... Learn about: Contemporary Literature, Human Rights...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session What is Britain now? Its metropolises are increasingly multicultural. Its hold over its distant colonies... Learn about: Contemporary Literature...

...will be to taste test the rich feast of current Irish writing fiction, drama, and poetry. The mode of the course will be discussion; you should come... Learn about: Contemporary Literature...

...and Toni Morrison. Previously taught topics include The American Revolution and Makeovers (i.e. adaptations and reinterpretation of novels traditionally...

...America's colonial past, its slave past, and other memorable and painful chapters in its past. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course explores the metaphorical...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course explores the ways in which various American artists view race and class as performed or performable identities... Learn about: American Literature...