University of Dallas

Literature Courses

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