Monthly Archives: August 2015

That there is no direct, unmediated link between ourselves and Shakespeare’s plays does not mean that there is no link at all. The “life” that literary works seem to possess long after both the death of the author and the … Continue reading →

Creation and the Cosmos A cosmogony is a story about how the world began. The Greek word cosmos implies order and beauty, as well as universe. To compose a cosmogony, therefore, is to describe how the world came to be … Continue reading →

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. Oscar Wilde

Theme is sometimes used interchangeably with “motif,” but the term is more usefully applied to a general concept or doctrine, whether implicit or asserted, which an imaginative work is designed to involve and make persuasive to the reader. M. H. … Continue reading →

  Our class blog is an important source of content for our course. Most of the material you need to know for tests will be posted here, as well as handouts, assignments, helpful guides and links to good stuff. You … Continue reading →