Literature and Ideas

3 - 4 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course offers a general consideration of the ways in which particular ideas have affected the creation and history of literature, whether considered in terms of the history of ideas or as the content of an individual work. Its subject matter is varied, depending on the instructor. It might address the influence of "freedom" in a selection of literary works. It might track the influence of the French Revolution. It might invent other new and useful keys to literary interpretation.