3 Credits
This course is designed as a survey of the lives and works of great authors in literature. Students will be led in and will lead discussion of the authors’ seminal works within their cultural and historical contexts. Students will learn to engage in critical evaluation of authors’ worldviews, but the emphasis will be on learning to converse with a text on its own terms, in light of its author’s questions and ideas.
Bibliography Sample
- Windows to the World: Literature in Christian Perspective, Leland Ryken, ISBN: 978-1579103408
- From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature, Malcom Bradbury, ISBN: 978-0140144352
- The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing, Leland Ryken, ISBN: 978-0877881230
- An Experiment in Criticism, C.S. Lewis, ISBN: 978-1107604728