World Literature Resources (1659 to Present)
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
Moliere
- Moliere & The Nature of Humor
- Characteristics of Tragedy and Comedy
- Moliere's Defense of Comedy
- Victim and Victor
Sor Juana
Herbert
Pope
Rousseau
Wordsworth
Keats
Douglass
Tennyson
- Structure and Coherence
- Tennyson'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 World
- The poems for class: The Windhover, As Kingfishers Catch Fire, God's Grandeur, Pied Beauty
James
Chekhov
Yeats
- Christian Responses to History, Language, and Culture
- Yeats & Symbolism
- Yeats' View of History
- Yeats' Hope for Salvation in Art
Stevens
T.S. Eliot
Akhmatova
Achebe
- Select Passages by Achebe
- Some 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 1992
- 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]