Such topics as Detective Fiction, Film, American Humor, and Frontier Literature. Such topics as Literature of the Holocaust, the Literature of Aging, and the Immigrant Experiences in American Literature. A study of the nature of tragedy in world literature. Primary attention will be given to poems in the English language, but the classics of other languages will be read in translation as appropriate to tracing of forms and themes. Although fiction from many literatures will be studied, all works will be read in English.
Special attention is given to the Greek legacy of ideas, themes, figures, and images.
An analysis of the ways in which the Biblical expression reflects the cultural and historical milieu of the Hebraic-Christian experience. The English novel, from its beginnings to the present. A study of African-American literature from its oral and folk beginnings to the present. 256 or BSt 221 and upper-division standing. American narrative, short story, and novel, with emphasis upon the major novelists of the 19th and early 20th centuries.