Integrate literary studies within the traditions of Western thought and culture.
| Courses include, but are not limited to: | |
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| Classical Epic | Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid |
| Dante | The Divine Comedy and selected works |
| Tragedy and Comedy | Greek and Shakespearean drama |
| Milton | Paradise Lost and other major works |
| Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess |
| Shakespeare | Comedies, Tragedies, Roman Plays, History Plays |
| Augustan Literature | Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson |
| Romantic Poetry | Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats |
| Victorian Literature | Essays, poetry and fiction by major Victorian writers |
| Faulkner | Major novels and short stories |
| Southern Literature | Poetry, fiction, and criticism by Southern writers of the twentieth century |
| Twentieth-Century Literature | Major modern writers of fiction and poetry in England and America |
| Studies in the Novel | Major 18th and 19th century British and Continental novelists |
| Russian Novel | Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevski |
| Menippean Satire | Lucian, Petronius, Apuleius, Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, Sterne, Lewis Carroll, Joyce, John Barth |
| Literary Criticism | Theories of both the interpretation and the nature of poetic knowledge |