In this course students study the development of the novel as a literary form from its earliest beginnings to the experimental novels of modern times. A study of the techniques, forms, and themes of modern poets of the English speaking world is presented in this course. This course is a comprehensive study of the methods and tools the satirists use to ridicule human vice and folly. Authors discussed include Swift, Shaw, Voltaire, Aristophanes, and Chaucer and Austen. As a study of the epic period, students survey works dating from the time of Homer.
Some emphasis is on the elements of epic narrative and style.
This course deals with the development of British dramatic literature from the mystery and morality plays of the Middle Ages to the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. The material covered is exclusive of Shakespeare. This survey covers the techniques, forms, and themes of twentieth century poets of the English and non-English speaking worlds. The works in the class are read in translation. This is a study of the great works of classical antiquity, mainly from Greece and Rome.