Free literature courses

All 76 literature courses

• American Literature I: Beginnings to Civil WarCyrus Patell, NYU
• American Passages: A Literary SurveyMultiple profs, Annenberg Learner
• Approaching ShakespeareFree Online Audio — Emma Smith, Oxford
• British and American Poetry: 1900 to the PresentCharles Altieri, UC Berkeley
• Cervantes’ Don QuixoteRoberto González Echevarría, Yale
• ChaucerPrinceton, John Fleming
• Contemporary American LiteratureSyllabus — John Pistelli, University of Minnesota
• Contemporary LiteratureFree Video Download - Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, IIT Madras
• Creative ReadingWilliam S. Burroughs, Naropa University
• Cultural StudiesFree Video Download — Liza Das, IIT Guwahati
• D.H. LawrenceCatherine Brown, Oxford
• Dante in TranslationGiuseppe Mazzotta, Yale
• Dante’s Divine ComedyTeodolinda Barolini, Columbia University
• Darwin and DesignJames Paradis, MIT
• Dracula (by Bram Stoker)Mythgard Academy
• DuneCorey Olson, Mythgard Academy
• Expansive PoeticsAllen Ginsberg, Naropa University
• Faeirie and FantasyCorey Olsen, Washington College
• Fiction for Young AdultsDavid Beagley, La Trobe University — Austrialia
• From Gods and BackHubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Genres in Children’s LiteratureDavid Beagley, La Trobe University — Austrialia
• George EliotCatherine Brown, Oxford
• Hemingway, Fitzgerald, FaulknerCourse Materials — Wai Chee Dimock, Yale
• History of Children’s LiteratureDavid Beagley, La Trobe University — Australia
• History of PoetryAllen Ginsberg, Naropa
• Holocaust in Film and LiteratureTodd Presner, UCLA
• How Stories Seduce UsStanley Fish, NYU
• Introduction to Literature and the EnvironmentKen Hiltner, Princeton
• Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and CultureJohn Wallace, UC Berkeley
• Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and CultureJohn Wallace, UC Berkeley
• Introduction to Theory of LiteraturePaul H. Fry, Yale
• Introduction to U.S. Multicultural LiteraturesJohn Pistelli, University of Minnesota
• Invitation to World LiteratureDavid Damrosch, Harvard
• Jack Kerouacand Part 2 — Allen Ginsberg, Naropa University
• Japanese Culture Through Rare BooksKeio University
• La Préparation du roman, in French (1978–80)Roland Barthes, Collège de France
• Literary History of the BeatsNaropa University, Allen Ginsberg
• Literature and FormFree iTunes Video — Free iTunes Audio — Catherine Brown, Oxford
• Literature and PsychoanalysisJohn Fletcher, University of Warwick
• Lord of the Rings II: The Two TowersCorey Olsen, Washington College
• Lord of the Rings III: Return of the KingCorey Olsen, Washington College
• MiltonFree iTunes Video — Course Materials — John Rogers, Yale
• Modern & Contemporary American PoetryUniversity of Pennsylvania
• Modern Masterpieces of World LiteratureHarvard
• Modern PoetryCourse Materials — Langdon Hammer, Yale
• Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular TheatreFree Online Audio — Multiple profs, Oxford
• Old English in ContextStuart Lee, Oxford University
• Oscar WildeSos Eltis, Oxford
• Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical FictionUniversity of Virginia
• Restoration and 18th Century Poetry: From Dryden to WordsworthWilliam Flesch, Brandeis
• RomanticismTimothy Morton, UC Davis
• Science Fiction and PoliticsCourtney Brown, Emory University
• ShakespeareCharles Altieri, UC Berkeley
• Shakespeare After All: The Later PlaysMarjorie Garber, Harvard
• Shakespeare and PoliticsPaul Cantor, University of Virginia
• Spenser and MiltonWilliam Flesch, Brandeis
• Survey of Shakespeare’s PlaysWilliam Flesch, Brandeis
• The American Novel Since 1945Amy Hungerford, Yale
• The Bible and English Literature(+ More Background) — Northrop Frye, U. of Toronto
• The Heroic QuestJoseph Hughes, Missouri State
• The HobbitFree Online Audio — More — Corey Olsen, Washington College
• The Literature of CrisisMarsh McCall & Martin Evans, Stanford
• The Lost Road (Tolkien)Mythgard Institute
• The Princess BrideMythgard Institute
• The Shaping of Middle EarthMythgard Institute
• The Silmarillion SeminarCorey Olsen, Washington College
• The TempestAllen Ginsberg, Naropa University
• The Western Canon: From Homer to MiltonWilliam Flesch, Brandeis
• This Craft of Verse: The Charles Eliot Norton LecturesJorge Luis Borges, Harvard
• Tolkien’s The Book of Lost Tales: Part 1Corey Olsen, Mythgard Academy
• Tolkien’s The Book of Lost Tales: Part 2Corey Olsen, Mythgard Academy
• Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earthCorey Olsen, Mythgard Academy
• Undergraduate Tolkien SurveyCorey Olsen, Washington College
• Voices & Visions: The Lives & Works of 13 American PoetsAnnenberg Media
• Watership DownCorey Olsen, Mythgard Academy
• Writing SourcesWilliam S. Burroughs, Naropa University

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