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This online course explores the dynamics of contemporary China using Chinese literature and literary analysis. The course includes direct engagement with five books and author...

This online course is to equip the learner with the knowledge required to comprehend the literature on anomalies so that he can replicate the strategies discovered by the extant...

This online course explores literature and interpretation in the Digital Age. It shows new ways of interpreting literary texts, from time-tested methods to computer-assisted...

This course explores the writings of famous American authors from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mark Twain, and examines the historic role Dartmouth College...

In this online course, eighteen experienced faculty members from across the United States present their analyses of ground-breaking modern American poets—from Whitman and...

In this course, students will explore the Holocaust from the overlapping perspectives of literature and history—through memoirs, historical documents, poetry, documentary...

This hands-on course helps learners to get started with their own fiction writing, focusing on the central skill of creating characters.

This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to...

The course facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain. Students are also expected to read four of...

This online course explores the history of the book during the early modern period and shows how the invention of printing revolutionized our world.

This course will teach what social innovations are and how they can help solve societal problems. It also gives an overview of important literature and debates on social...

This online course covers texts from the domains of classical literature, history, philosophy, and fine arts.

Taking this course, students will question for themselves the meaning of human freedom, responsibility and identity by reading and responding to Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

Diese Vorlesungsserie beleuchtet die verschiedenen Facetten des Werks von Rousseau (u.a. politische Philosophie, Literatur und Sprache, Pädagogik) und seiner Aktualität ebenso...

Diese Online-Vorlesung gibt eine literaturwissenschaftliche Einführung in die Neuere Deutsche Literatur.In 10 Videovorlesungen verschiedener Dozenten werden viele grundlegende...

Exil – Literatur – Judentum

Diese Online-Vorlesung untersucht moderne Ästhetikkonzepte und Ansätze mittelalterlicher Kunsttheorie bei literarischen Texten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts.

Diese Vorlesungsreihe diskutiert verschiedene Aspekte von Parallelgesellschaften, v.a. in der Literatur.

In dieser Videovorlesung erläutern verschiedene Dozenten ausgewählte Aspekte der Literaturwissenschaft. U.a. wird der richtige Umgang mit alten Texten erörtert.

Diese Videovorlesung gibt eine Einführung in Gattungstheorie und -geschichte. Die begleitenden Folien zur Vorlesung werden eingeblendet.