Free Literary History & Criticism Courses
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by Hubert L. Dreyfus
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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.
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by Hubert L. Dreyfus
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This course will compare and contrast the Greek, Medieval, and modern worlds, as reflected in their greatest literature...
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by Emma Smith
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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.
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by Amy Hungerford
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In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present.
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by Marsh McCall
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Most human lives contain major turning points: crises that transform an individual’s future development...
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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.
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by Barry Wood
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Critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville.
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by Timothy Morton
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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.
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by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
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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.
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by Paul Fry
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This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory.
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