Intro to Lit. Catholicism

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course engages the study of literature and Catholic religious discourse. We will approach Catholicism as one among many strategies available to makers of culture, those often unconscious traces of Catholic philosophy, aesthetics, theology, and worship at work in artists over the last century (c. 1900 to the present). We will engage artists who embody a “Catholic imagination” by exploring their work in light of the historical and aesthetic context of their time, suggesting the transnational character of this Catholic literary imagination.