Major Authors

Catalog description

This course permits detailed study of the life and works of a significant writer of poetry, drama, fiction, and/or nonfiction prose. Depending upon the instructor, the major author studied might be Shakespeare, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, or any other writer whose collected works impacted their own cultural and historical moment and remain significant to modern readers, writers, and thinkers. The aim of the course is to provide for sustained study by allowing students to read multiple works by a single author, study the author’s life and cultural milieu, and consider how readers, reviewers, and scholars have responded to that author’s works. Course may be taken up to two times, for 6 total credit hours, provided that the topics differ.