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Literature

- body of (usually) written works related by subject-matter, by language or place of origin, or by dominant cultural standards. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter). In Western culture the most basic literary types include poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction - Wikipedia.

Modern Poetry

covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners: Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Bishop, Frost, additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance, Diverse methods of literary criticism employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism

FURTHER GREEK LITERATURE: Aristotle's Poetics

theory of tragedy developed in Aristotle's Poetics, usefulness of Aristotle's analysis of tragedy when applied to Homer and the Greek tragedians: Supplementary texts, Seminar notes

Online Writing Assistant

free of charge for any educational or nonprofit purpose, distillation and collage of numerous writings, talks, and activities: Discovering, Organizing, Revising, Editing, Informal Essays, Thesis/Support Essays, Argumentative & Exploratory Essays, Documenting

World Literature Lecture Notes

early civilizations & writings, Mediterranean map, beginning Gilgamesh, ancient Hebrews, literature & work sheet, figurative language in Hebrew literature, oral tradition & literature essay, Homer's The Odyssey, Oedipus the king by Sophocles, Ovid's metamorphoses, Canterbury
tales by Chaucer, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Milton's Paradise Lost

Course Information

composition, literature (British , European, Medieval & early modern literature & culture), Chaucer, Milton, bibliography & literary research, Chaucer's heirs

Survey of American Literature

online course addressing selections of literary works by US writers from early colonial period through Walt Whitman: study of literature, colonies, revolution, new nation, (clashing theologies, the diarists, Calvinism & "the great awakening", literature of reason & revolution), native American heritage, romantic temper & house divided

English - Course Materials

courses: early & later Shakespeare (comedies, histories, and tragedies), best sellers (The Fifties (bombshells), The Sixties (hope & despair), The Seventies (war & peace), The Eighties (communists & capitalists), The Nineties (terrorism) ), resources

Survey of African-American Literature

works by African American writers from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century, presents historical, sociological, and political context of the literature created by African Americans during these time periods: literature of (slavery & freedom, reconstruction to new Negro renaissance, Harlem renaissance), sample essay

Survey of British Literature

literary works from mid-nineteenth century through high modern period within historical contexts, aiming to establish connections across time between different writers, genres, & eras, gives sense of literary history, an understanding of some central texts & grasp of how British literature & readers have developed: description, texts, study questions, essay exam guide

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