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close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain, Cervantes' work will be discussed in relation to paintings by Velázquez, question of why Don Quixote is read today will be addressed throughout the course
 

survey of American literature and literary history from the early colonial period to the eve of the Civil War, goal to acquire a grasp of the canon of American literature as it is typically conceived and the various logics behind its construction
 

examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in other arts, particularly literature and opera, film's ability to represent and express feeling as well as cognition, written and cinematic works by Sturges, Shaw, Cocteau, Hitchcock, Joyce, and Bergman considered: readings
 

historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements in historical context, concentrating on the New Testament, importance of the New Testament and other early Christian documents as ancient literature and as sources for historical study, central organizing theme of the course will focus on the differences within early Christianity (-ies)

main trends in twentieth-century literary theory, philosophical and social perspectives on the recurrent questions (what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?)
 

insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film
 

DeSales University Contemporary Fiction, American Literature, Women in War, Retribution, The Writing Process, Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley, British Literature Timeline, Romantic Period, "The Age of Oddities" British Romantic Lecture, British Literature
 

examines American writing published between 1900 and the end of the century focusing on selected issues such modernism and postmodernism, ethnicity and gender, regionalism and cultural geography: resources, webliography

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