World Literature Resources (Beginnings to 1650)

Subject	Lectures and Handouts
Introduction to Course	Ways to Improve Your Reading Process Why Study World Literature. Issues Surrounding the Interpretation of Literature Asking Questions of Texts (Heuristic Device)
Gilgamesh	Gilgamesh and the Quest Myth Two Topics in Gilgamesh Orality and Literacy in the Epic of Gilgamesh
Akhenaten	Cosmic Order and the Shape of the World – Competing Views
Homer	Characteristics of an Epic Virtue in the Heroic Society Conventions of the Homeric Hospitality Scene Structure in Books 9-12 of Odyssey Odysseus' False Identities "Odysseus' Scar"/ The Homeric Style Externalization and Foregrounding
Aeschylus	Terms and Definitions for Greek Tragedy Ancient Greek Theatre Maps Conflict in Aeschylus
Virgil	Three Visits to the Underworld
Sei Shonagon	Elements of the Personal Essay
Augustine	Additional selections The Genre of Augustine's Confessions Augustine's Spiritual Journey Augustine's Aeneid
Rumi	Introduction to Sufism and Rumi
Dante	The Great Structure of the Divine Comedy Levels of Interpretation in Dante Dante's Politics and the Prophecies in Hell Dante's Allegory of Eden Dante's Six Invocations to the Muse Two Stories in Paradiso
Medieval Lyrics	The Cult of Love and the Code of Chivalry
Cervantes	Characteristics of Satire Don Quixote as Anti-Romance Victim and Victor: Christ as the Archetype of Comedy Don Quixote and the Artificial Nature of Fiction
Petrarch	The Petrarchan Sonnet
Shakespeare	Pictures and Drawings of The Globe Theatre The Elizabethan Theatre Playhouse
Erasmus	Erasmus and Christian Laughter The Nature of Folly

"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding