english lit
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Introduction to Who Wrote Shakespeare
COURSE DESCRIPTION This free course from the University of London explores critical thinking, and the interpretation of texts, through the Shakespeare authorship question. Using doubt about Shakespeare’s authorship as our playground, we will explore the key concept of authorship attribution... -
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”)
COURSE DESCRIPTION ModPo is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior experience with poetry) will learn how to read poems that are supposedly... -
Modern American Poetry
COURSE DESCRIPTION The course highlights both major poets—from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson through T.S. Eliot, H.D., Amy Lowell, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, and many others—and influential movements. The course mixes historical overview with close readings of individual... -
Ancient Masterpieces of World Literature
COURSE DESCRIPTION This short literature course, based on the first half of the Masterpieces of World Literature edX MOOC, examines how civilizations and cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how that literature has continued to contribute to our understanding... -
Modern Masterpieces of World Literature
COURSE DESCRIPTION Based on the second half of the Masterpieces of World Literature edX MOOC, this short literature course examines how writers reach beyond national and linguistic boundaries as worldly readers and travelers, and how their modern fictions rise to the status of world literature... -
Masterpieces of World Literature
COURSE DESCRIPTION This literature course explores how great writers refract their world and how their works are transformed when they intervene in our global cultural landscape today. Length: 12 Weeks Effort: 5-7 hours per week Price: FREE (Add a verified certificate for $149 USD)) Provider... -
Poetry in America: Modernism
COURSE DESCRIPTION This literature course, the sixth module in the Poetry in America series, explores a diverse array of American Modernist poets and poems.While “Modernism” is notoriously difficult to define, the movement spanned the decades from the 1910s to the mid-1940s, and the poetry of... -
Poetry in America: Whitman
COURSE DESCRIPTION This module, the third installment of the multi-part _Poetry in America _series, focuses on the poetry of Walt Whitman, a quintessentially American writer whose work continues to bear heavily upon the American poetic tradition. We will explore Whitman’s relationship to the... -
Poetry in America: The Civil War and Its Aftermath
COURSE DESCRIPTION This module, the fifth installment of the multi-part Poetry in America series, explores the Poetry of the Civil War and its Aftermath. We will: Encounter such poets as Herman Melville, Julia Ward Howe, Walt Whitman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James...