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This online course explores the richness and diversity of Chinese culture by analyzing the role of art, literature and the concept of the 'noble hero'.

This online course (MOOC) aims at providing students with a deeper knowledge of Chinese culture, thus enabling them to better understand China. It covers topics such as...

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...

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

This course will cover key poetic terms and devices by studying poems by a handful of modern and contemporary poets and then get a chance to try our own hand at writing new poem...

Through this course, students will learn the history of creative computing, what challenges writers, artists, and readers face in new media environments. They will also discover...

This course is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Dickinson and Whitman to the present.

This online course (MOOC) explores various learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. It teaches how the...

This online course explores Shakespeare's mature plays of tragic love, Othello and King Lear, and what makes them so powerful and enduring.

Focused on Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings Online, this course explores what happens to stories and films when they are turned into online games.

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...

This online course gives an introduction to Gothic cathedrals. The course explores the art, literature, intellectual life, economics, and social arrangements that arose in the...

This online course explores the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

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.

Exil – Literatur – Judentum

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

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

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

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