Welcome to Week 5 of our course. This week (and next Tuesday), we will be exploring one of the great tragedies of Western literature, Oedipus the King, a Ancient Greek drama which raises powerful questions about free will and fate. I’m sure you will be intrigued by the complicated character […]
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Welcome to Week 4 of our course. This week will begin a segment on Poetry. We’ll be exploring the themes and structure of Shakespearean and Italian sonnets, as well as lyric, dramatic, and narrative poetry. Quiz 4 is due Sunday, August 10th.
Welcome to Week 2 of our intensive five-week course.. This week we will be reading a number of short stories and a poem. “Salvation” by Langston Hughes and “Araby” are two coming-of-age stories. We will also be reading a selection of short works from the 19th Century, which feature women […]