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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...

This online course explores the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

This online course prepares participants to read more deeply and write more clearly about works of literature. They will learn to appreciate literature from different genres....

This online course explores the role of books during the Enlightenment and how literature emerged as a modern form of culture.

This course examines major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales: the macro history of the United States and...

This online course explores one of the most popular and widely read literary sub-genres of crime fiction. It includes modules on its history, the various sub-genres, narrative...

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

This course offers an easy entry into interpreting common statistical concepts and understand these concepts is the best way to start a journey into the world of clinical...

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

This online course provides an exploration of Spain depicted in Cervante’s historic novel, Don Quixote – a Golden Age in which Spanish arts and literature reached worldwide...

This online course explores several well-known European fairy tales and their meanings and interpretation.

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...

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

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 untersucht moderne Ästhetikkonzepte und Ansätze mittelalterlicher Kunsttheorie bei literarischen Texten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts.

Exil – Literatur – Judentum

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.