LI 104H: The Stranger in Literature
Stories, poems, and plays about cross-cultural interaction, drawing on examples from the Bible and classical antiquity to the present. Emphasis on interactions between Americans and Europeans and between Western and non-Western cultures.

LI 109H: Poetry, Imagination, Nature
Introduction to poetry, with the emphasis on formal issues (diction, imagery, rhythm, etc.), human consciousness (imagination, values), and the world of nature. Readings of representative English and American poems.

LI 195H: Four Authors
Study the literary work of four authors (will vary according to the year, the instructor, student suggestions, etc.) but will represent different times and places and the four basic genres of drama, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.

LI 201H: Introduction to Children's Literature
Fable, fairy tale, short story, poetry, novel, information books, children's classics. Young readers and their development. Integration of visual and literary arts.

LI 205H: Woman as Metaphor
Investigating European, Canadian and American literature with emphasis on metaphors for women, what it is to be human, and values choices. Conceptions of women through the ages as presented in literature.

LI 209H: Religion and Literature
Readings by writers through the ages who have dealt with religious experience. Stories, poems, & novels, by such figures as Dante, Milton, Hopkins, Graham Greene, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Flannery O'Connor.

LI 210H: Human Experience in Literature
Theme-based introduction to literature. Basic human experiences (innocence/experience, conformity/rebellion, love/hate, death) approached through poems, stories, and plays from 400 B.C. to the present.

LI 212H: Introduction to Comparative Literature
Key texts in European and world literature studied comparatively and in relation to philosophy and visual art. Authors will vary from year to year but may include Aeschylus, Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, Tolstoy, and Beckett.

LI 214H: Literature and Women
Poems, plays, novels, stories by or about women of various cultures and languages, primarily over the past 200 years. Readings in social and political movements that shaped writer and her world.

LI 221H: American Literature I
Literature of 17th, 18th and 19th century America. The development and transfiguration of American attitudes toward nature, religion, government, slavery, etc., traced through literary works.

LI 222H: American Literature II
Readings from American writers from the 1860s to present. Stories, poems and plays by such writers as Dickinson, Twain, James, Wharton, Pound, Frost, Stevens, O'Neill, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, O'Connor, and Ellison.

LI 224H: Southern Literature
Southern novels, short stories and plays, identifying what is "Southern" about them. Works by McCullers, Warren, Faulkner, O'Connor, Percy, Price, Porter, Gaines. Attendance required.

LI 228H: The American Short Story
Introduction to genre and survey from the mid 19th century to present. Major writers including Hawthorne, Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, O'Connor, and range of contemporary writers. Films: American Short Story series.

LI 235H: Introduction to Shakespeare
Shakespeare through sampling each dramatic genre: comedy, tragedy, history and romance. Learn to appreciate and evaluate his writings, and the characteristic distinctions among the genres.

LI 236H: History of Drama I
Two semester course; either may be taken independently. Part I includes Greek drama through the Restoration and 18th century. Part II includes pre-modern, modern and contemporary classics.

LI 237H: History of Drama II
Two semester course; either may be taken independently. Part I includes Greek drama through the Restoration and 18th century. Part II includes pre-modern, modern and contemporary classics.

LI 238H: English Literature I: to 1800
General survey from the Old English to the Neoclassic period, highlighting the historical traditions which the authors create and upon which they draw.

LI 239H: English Literature II
General survey of British literature from 1800 to the present, including Romantic, Victorian, modern, and contemporary writers. Attention to historical tradition and outstanding individual artists.

LI 241H: Major American Novels
Major American novels, their narrative art, their reflection of American culture, their engagement of the readers' hearts and minds, exploring some of life's great questions as revealed by masterful writers.

LI 244G: Postcolonial Literature
An introduction to major postcolonial writers, primarily from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Authors may include Chinua Achebe, Aime Cesaire, J.M. Coetzee, Jamaica Kincaid, and Jean Rhys.

LI 250H: Children's Literature
(Directed Study) The best of children's literature in various genres. Students do either a creative (e.g., writing children's story) or scholarly (e.g., essay on history of nursery rhymes) project.

LI 251H: Shakespeare
(Directed Study) For students unable to enroll LI 235H Introduction to Shakespeare or those wishing to pursue further work on Shakespeare independently.

LI 281H: Rise of the Novel
Some of the great works of the Western tradition, the fantastic and the realistic, following the guided dreams of narrative and its exploration of our imaginations and our worlds.

LI 282H: The Modern Novel
Modern writers and some of the questions of modern times: alienation, depth psychology in fiction, assessments of technology and urban life, sources of hope in humanism and literary art.

LI 301H: Southern Literature
Southern novels, short stories and plays, identifying what is "Southern" about them. Works by McCullers, Warren, Faulkner, O'Connor, Percy, Price, Porter, Gaines. Attendance required.

LI 303H: 18th Century British Literature
Readings of major writers, including Pope, Swift, and Johnson. Emphasis on neo-classical forms and on satire/social context of art. Freshmen: Instructor's permission.

LI 314G: Caribbean Literature and Film
Major writers and filmmakers from the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Particular attention to questions of postcolonial identity, culture and globalization, and relationships between literature and film. All texts in translation.

LI 319H: British Romantic Poetry
Major poetry (and relevant prose) of Romantic era (1798-1832). Poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Major themes: Nature, Self (individualism, consciousness), Transcendence (God), and Art / Poetry. Related themes: Industrial revolution, social change, Romantic painting.

LI 320H: Modern British Poetry
Readings of major British poets from the 1880's through the 1930's including Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, and Auden. Supplementary materials in criticism and philosophy. Freshmen require instructor's permission.

LI 322H: Modern British Fiction
Readings of late 19th, early 20th century novels by writers such as Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Mansfield and Lawrence. Course includes film. Focus on experimental works and artists. Freshmen: Instructor's permission.

LI 323H: Victorian Poetry and Poetics
Readings of late 19th century British poets, including Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and Hopkins. Supplementary critical readings. Freshmen require instructor's permission.

LI 325H: Modern American Poetry
Major American poets from 1900, concentrating on the image of American and the development of modernism. Poets include Frost, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Stevens, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov.

LI 327: Chaucer to Shakespeare
Survey of major authors and forms of earlier English non-dramatic poetry, with emphasis on Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare. Prerequisite: LI 235H, LI 238H or permission or instructor.

LI 329H: Literature, Myth, and Cinema
Readings of myths used in ancient drama and modern literature/film. Writers include Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides; Conrad, Joyce, Mann. Directors include Coppola, Polanski and Kurosawa. Freshmen: Instructor's permission.

LI 338H: 20th Century Drama: U.S./Britain
Representative dramatic forms through works by O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Eliot, Osborne, Pinter, Beckett, Arden, Stoppard, and the influences which helped shape modern drama.

LI 340H: Literature and Art of the Great War
Interdisciplinary (history, art, literature) and international (English, French, German) course on World War I. Readings include poems, stories, diaries, letters. Art includes Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism. Films from Chaplin to present.

LI 344H: Literature, Art, and Ideas: 1850-1950
Focus: modern revolution in intellectual & artistic history. Attention to changes in society (urbanization, feminism), science (relativity, quantum mechanics), philosophy/social sciences (Nietzsche, Einstein, Freud), and related changes in art, music, fiction, poetry.

LI 348H: Literature after Auschwitz
Inquiry into the cultural significance of the Holocaust and the challenges of living in its aftermath through study of testimony, literature, visual art, film, philosophy, and memorials.

LI 350H: Modern American Novel
(Directed Study) Ten of twelve major American novelists of the first half of the 20th century from Dreiser through Richard Wright. Ideas, themes, and analysis of writing style.

LI 361: Literary Criticism
Readings in literary criticism from classical, Renaissance, neo-Classical, and modern writers. Representative figures include Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Sidney, Johnson, Coleridge, Arnold, and selected modern thinkers. Freshmen: Instructor's permission.

LI 382H: Contemporary American Poetry
Poems of post-1950 American poets, various movements that developed and the values they represent, and the difficult relations between poet and society.

LI 405: Literature and Ethics
What does it mean to act ethically? How might literature promote and/or undermine responsible thought and action? Readings to include philosophy (e.g. Kant, Levinas) and selected literary texts (e.g. Baudelaire, Melville, Lispector). Prerequisite: 300-level course in literature.

LI 425: Seminar on Shakespeare
Plays and poems, language, structure, setting, characterization, themes, traditions. Limited to Senior literature majors, with others by permission of instructor.

LI 432: Major Poets
Seminar on work of one or two major poets, such as Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Stevens, Auden. Attention to tradition and context. Supplementary materials include letters, essays, and criticism/theory. Junior/Senior Literature majors. Others by permission.

LI 435: T.S. Eliot: Poetry/Prose
Poetry, plays, criticism of central figure in 20th century literature. Readings include The Waste Land, Four Quartets, Murder in the Cathedral, selected prose. Focus: formal/thematic elements, tradition, intellectual context. Junior/Senior lit majors only; others by permission.

LI 498: Comprehensive Examination


LI 499: Senior Thesis