English 350R Themes in Literature
Creating Peace in Love, at Home, with God
Themes in Literature: Creating Peace in Love, at Home, and with God introduces students to literature genres and authors who write and contribute to our literary tradition. In our study of these writings, we will use the fundamental tools of literary interpretation in the discussion, analysis, and evaluation of literature. We will incorporate some principal interpretative theories: formalism, psychological, gender studies, reader-response, and new historicism. Each of these theories will provide specific insights into literary texts that invite analysis from many different perspectives. We will also engage in thoughtful writing and dialogue to help us arrive at a rich understanding of the literatre as we examine creating peace in love, at home, and with God
English 350R Syllabus
These are some of the books or plays students have read for English 350R. Students have reading options.
Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther Foster's A Room with a View Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns Strout's Olive Kitteridge Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Robinson's Gilead Paton's Cry the Beloved Country Euripede's The Trojan Women Goldman's The Lion in Winter |
Alcott's Little Women
Russells' Blood Brothers Homer's The Illiad Milton's Paradise Lost Laxness's Paradise Reclaimed Enger's Peace Like a River MacLeish's J.B. Miller's All My Sons Shafer's Amadeus Nicholson's Shadowlands Lewis's A Grief Observed |