Literature

Course System Home All Areas of Study Literature

Select Filters and then click Apply to load new results

Term
Time & Day Offered
Level
Credits
Course Duration

Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written. We will master the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody, acquire a familiarity with writing in meter, and attempt such traditional forms as the villanelle, the sestina, the pantoum, the rondel, and the ghazal. We will also closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly
Literature

Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written, including the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the aubade, and the litany. Students will also be introduced to the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody, acquire a familiarity with writing in meter and using rhyme, and attempt prescribed forms such as the

Literature

Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written, including the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the aubade, and the litany. Students will also be introduced to the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody, acquire a familiarity with writing in meter and using rhyme, and attempt traditional forms such as the
Literature

Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various genres of poetry, including the narrative poem, the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the aubade, the list poem, and the erasure. Students will also be introduced to traditional prosody and acquire a familiarity with writing in meter, and will read poetry written in such traditional forms as the villanelle,
Literature

Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written, possibly including the narrative poem, the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the litany or list poem, the documentary poem, the conceptual poem, and the erasure. Students will also be introduced to the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody,
Literature

Getting the Story, Getting in Close: Longform Journalism in Conflict Zones — LIT2296.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 2
In this course, we will read the work a range of long-form journalism--reporting that depends on deep research, cultural and linguistic immersion and/or reliance of interpreters, translators, and local guides; knowledge of history, geography, and politics; military embedments; and medical training. Expect to read Luke Mogelson ('07), Robin Wright, Dexter Filkins, Alma
Literature

Gothic Vision: Specters of Subversion, Medieval to Now — AH4108.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
The Gothic is a worldview equally at home in nostalgia and strangeness. It thirsts for arcane, even perverse, knowledge and is frequently motivated by a fearful fascination with the foreign. In Gothic novels (the first of which appeared in London in 1764) psychic ‘interiority’ is revealed in dark spaces tainted by unthinkable crimes or haunted by spirits. But if seeing is
Visual Arts Literature

Greek Historians as Literature — LIT4187.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Dan Hofstadter
Credits: 4
Precisely where the accounts of the major Greek historians stand in relation to fact is a matter of massive, ongoing scholarly inquiry. However that may be, the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch have always been regarded as brilliant contributions to literary art, albeit in different ways. Herodotus is a raconteur, venturing into the realm of folktale, fantasy, and
Literature

Hans Christian Andersen — LIT2285.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Credits: 2
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) is one of the most famous names in world literature, but the Hollywoodization of his most famous stories--not to mention of his own biography--have obscured, for many, the delicate, painful artistry of his incomparable tales. In this class we will read a wide selection of Andersen's stories, including classics like "The Emperor's New Clothes,"
Literature

Hans Christian Andersen — LIT2285.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Credits: 2
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) is one of the most famous names in world literature, but the Hollywoodization of his most famous stories--not to mention of his own biography--have obscured, for many, the delicate, painful artistry of his incomparable tales. In this class we will read a wide selection of Andersen's stories, including classics like "The Emperor's New Clothes,"
Literature

Haunted by Unnameable Doom — LIT2576.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Halfway through John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, he admits to the reader in his call to the Muses that he has "fallen on evil days" and into unwelcome solitude, caught "[i]n darkness, with dangers compassed round." Milton wrote Paradise Lost under epically gnarly circumstances -- jailed and fined for backing the failed removal and execution of the King, going blind,

Literature

Hearing Voices: a Master Class in Literary Journalism — LIT4395.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Voice, in writing, goes beyond style and tone to something like identity; at best, a writer’s voice is a direct conduit to their exact nature—their mind, their individuality, their blind spots, their soul. In this course, we’ll learn to hear voices more clearly. We’ll analyze what animates the work of writers like Patricia Lockwood, Ellen Willis, Greg Tate, John Jeremiah
Literature

Henrik Ibsen — LIT4531.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This remote and synchronous course will explore Henrik Ibsen’s influence and innovations as an architect of modern drama. The Norwegian playwright restlessly experimented with theatrical genre while relentlessly pursuing themes of personal freedom. From early works such as Brand to his final play When We Dead Awaken, Ibsen’s plays urge the individual’s imperative toward moral
Literature

Historical Fictions/Fictional Histories — LIT4165.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
In this advanced seminar, we will consider the demands and complexities of working with history in fiction. When, where, why, and how do facts abet and/or intrude on the creation of plot, character, place, framing, rhythm, and other details of style in novels and stories? How do questions of representation, selection and emphasis, vocabulary and tone, pacing and texture, affect
Literature

Historical Fictions/Fictional Histories — LIT4165.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
In this Writing Intensive Seminar, we will consider the demands and complexities of working with history in fiction. When, where, why, and how do facts abet and/or intrude on the creation of plot, character, place, framing, rhythm, and other details of style in novels and stories? How do questions of representation—selection and emphasis, vocabulary and tone, pacing and texture
Literature

History of Theater II: Modern Drama — DRA2154.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course examines the history and aesthetics of the theater, including the development of staging, production, and acting methods and styles. In the fall of 2015 we will read representative plays from the modern canon, beginning with the experiments in Naturalism in the nineteenth century through twentieth century modernism to the contemporary drama of today. Along with the
Drama Literature

Honors Seminar "The Invention of the Nineteenth Century": Readings in Balzac — LIT4329.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Oscar Wilde liked to say that Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) invented the 19th century. The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine) comprises approximately 3,000 characters in a total of 92 novels, sketches, stories, and philosophical tales. For the first time in the history of the novel, characters recur—a star of one book may reappear as a minor figure in the intricate social
Literature

Honors Seminar on Twain — LIT4527.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Rebecca Godwin
Credits: 4
According to Sam Clemens himself, “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” In this course, we’ll read several “good books”—along with stories, essays, and letters—penned by one of the most prolific and complex of American writers. One of the funniest, too, so expect to have a good time, in the midst of a rigorous reading and
Literature

Honors Seminar: Theory and Practice of Dramaturgy — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course weʹll look at the history and practice of dramaturgy and introduce some tools and methods of that practice, including text analysis, editing, and adaptation. Along with assignments on individual texts, students will observe rehearsals in DRA4376 Directing II and prepare rehearsal notes. The studentʹs major work for the term will be the preparation of a Protocol,
Drama Literature

Honors Seminar: George Orwell — LIT4135.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Perhaps more than any other writer of his century, George Orwell (1903-1950) combined a penetrating political intelligence with significant literary gifts. In this class we will read most of Orwell's novels ('Burmese Days,' 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying,' 'Coming Up for Air,' 'Animal Farm,' '1984') and major non-fiction works ('Down and Out in Paris and London,' 'The Road to
Literature

Honors Seminar: Korean American Feminist Poetry — LIT4159.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
Credits: 4
Poetry by Korean American female and feminist writers has burgeoned in the 21st century with a new generation of poets contributing to life of American letters. Reading poets such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Myung Mi Kim, Monica Youn, Don Mee Choi, Arlene Kim, EJ Koh, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Hannah Sanghee Park, and Franny Choi, we will discuss how each writer negotiates
Literature

Honors Seminar: Map to a Masterpiece — LIT4273.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: doug bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We'll be reading some of the principal works that Henry James, as a young aspiring novelist, absorbed and analyzed in the process of actively forming his own aesthetic, culminating in his first great novel, The Portrait of a Lady. It's a highly various and idiosyncratic tracing and the reading list will reflect it, drawn from among Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, Eliot's
Literature