World Literature Resources (1659 to Present) Subject Lectures and Handouts Introductory Materials Why Study Literature?Ways to Improve Your Reading Process (optional) Questions Surrounding the Interpretation of Literature (suggested) Asking Questions of Texts (Heuristic Device) Aspects of Various Periods in the Western Tradition Mahfouz Zaabalawi as Parable Moliere Moliere & The Nature of HumorCharacteristics of Tragedy and Comedy Moliere's Defense of Comedy Victim and Victor Sor Juana Outline of The ReplyComprehension Questions Herbert Herbert's Love Poems to GodThree Poems on Love Introduction to George Herbert (optional) Pope Outline of Essay on Man Book ITheodicy and Pope's Essay on Man Rousseau The Subjective Turn in Romanticism Wordsworth Wordsworth's Poetic Theory Keats Outline for Keats' OdesKeats' Odes and Negative Capability Images of Attic Vases & Urns Douglass Issues & ConsiderationsThe Bible and Slavery Tennyson Structure and CoherenceTennyson's Prologue to the Strong Son of God: Faith and Doubt Tennyson's "Song of Woe" Tennyson's "Faith" & Vision for Humanity Hopkins Hopkins' The Sacrament of the WorldIntroduction to Hopkins (optional) The poems for class: The Windhover, As Kingfishers Catch Fire, God's Grandeur, Pied Beauty James Three Rival Methods of Pursuing TruthThe Problem of the Modern Self Chekhov The Well-Made PlotMood, Class, Loss and Gain Yeats Christian Responses to History, Language, and CultureYeats & Symbolism Yeats' View of History Yeats' Hope for Salvation in Art Stevens Stevens' Modern Gnosticism T.S. Eliot Little Gidding CommentaryLittle Gidding Introduction Select Passages by T.S. Eliot Akhmatova Sufffering, the Cross, and Remembrance Achebe Select Passages by AchebeSome General Background The Problem of Cultural Representation Achebe Website at Brown [optional] Key Terms in Post-Colonial Theory Colonialism and Christianity Walcott Walcott's Nobel Prize Speech 1992Outline of Walcott's Nobel Speech Two Poles of New World Writers An Interpretation of "Crusoe's Journal" Omeros: Caribbean Epic Outline of the Selections from Omeros [Our class readings] An Outline of all of Walcott's Omeros [optional] Borges Borges' World of Forking Paths Cairns Background and Questions Endo "Japan's Faithful Judas" by Philip YancyShusaku Endo's Jesus
Subject
Lectures and Handouts
Ways to Improve Your Reading Process (optional)
Questions Surrounding the Interpretation of Literature (suggested)
Asking Questions of Texts (Heuristic Device)
Aspects of Various Periods in the Western Tradition
Characteristics of Tragedy and Comedy
Moliere's Defense of Comedy
Victim and Victor
Comprehension Questions
Three Poems on Love
Introduction to George Herbert (optional)
Theodicy and Pope's Essay on Man
Keats' Odes and Negative Capability
Images of Attic Vases & Urns
The Bible and Slavery
Tennyson's Prologue to the Strong Son of God: Faith and Doubt
Tennyson's "Song of Woe"
Tennyson's "Faith" & Vision for Humanity
Introduction to Hopkins (optional)
The poems for class: The Windhover, As Kingfishers Catch Fire, God's Grandeur, Pied Beauty
The Problem of the Modern Self
Mood, Class, Loss and Gain
Yeats & Symbolism
Yeats' View of History
Yeats' Hope for Salvation in Art
Little Gidding Introduction
Select Passages by T.S. Eliot
Some General Background
The Problem of Cultural Representation
Achebe Website at Brown [optional]
Key Terms in Post-Colonial Theory
Colonialism and Christianity
Outline of Walcott's Nobel Speech
Two Poles of New World Writers
An Interpretation of "Crusoe's Journal"
Omeros: Caribbean Epic
Outline of the Selections from Omeros [Our class readings]
An Outline of all of Walcott's Omeros [optional]
Shusaku Endo's Jesus
"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