Advanced Literature Comprehension

$299.00

LIT 047 | High School | 0.50 Credit Hours

This course provides an exploration of proven masters in major genres, including epic poetry, short story, drama, and the novel. Major themes include love of self, of others, and of principle.

LIT 047 | High School | 0.50 Credit Hours

This course provides an exploration of proven masters in major genres, including epic poetry, short story, drama, and the novel. Major themes include love of self, of others, and of principle.

*Note: The novels required may be available at a local library or bookstore*

Course Details

  • 1. The Great English Epic: Beowulf
    2. Love in Structure: The Sonnet
    3. Love through Imagination: Art Ballads and Odes
    4. A Dark Side of Love: The Romantic Short Story
    5. Contradiction and Contrast: The Short Story from a Victorian View
    6. The Victorian Novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray
    7. Modern Poetry: The Magic of Robert Frost
    8. Modern Drama: Pygmalion

  • With one exception, the textbooks for this course are inexpensive Dover Thrift Editions. The one exception is the Beowulf text. The texts are listed below by unit number, which is the order in which you should study them. You will note that unit 3 has two texts.

    • Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel; published by Penguin.

    • Great Sonnets, edited by Paul Negri; published by Dover.

    • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Dover. Lyric Poems, by John Keats; Dover.

    • Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Dover.

    • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories, by Rudyard Kipling; Dover.

    • The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde; Dover.

    • A Boy’s Will and North of Boston, by Robert Frost; Dover.

    • Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw; Dover.

    Other than these books, all you will need is a quiet place to read and a block of time sufficient to get the job done. You must realize that reading involves more than looking at the words; it demands reflection, questioning, and projecting. Hopefully, the structure of each unit will encourage and assist you to do so.