Literature Undergraduate Degrees

...they are a site of experimentation—a way of trying out new authors and new themes." This course meets in the second half of the semester. Sessions...

...as well as some of their reflections in prose on what poetry does, on what other poets do, and what it means to write in English from the historical...

...With help from philosophers, contemporary cultural historians, and others, we will begin to think about a media practice largely taken for granted in our own moment... Learn about: Social Networking...

...My department has decided to test out such 6-unit subjects, in the hope of enlarging the scope of our offerings and reducing time/scheduling pressures on prospective students...

...Renaissance lyrics and a play, 18th-century satires in words and images, 19th century irony, modern stories and film. A list of topics covered in the course...

...and musical points of view. Readings supply critical and background materials from a number of sources. Visitors and films bring additional perspectives... Learn about: Folk Music...

...and (3) trace the emergence of subsequent theoretical paradigms as responses to what came before. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This subject...

...philosophical aspiration, and political ambition that continue to shape modern cultures. This class will be exploring the Golden Age of Latin Literature...

..."He will be the most expert investigator of the Holy Scriptures who has first read all of them and has some knowledge of them, at least through reading...

...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...