Integrate literary studies within the traditions of Western thought and culture. 

Courses include, but are not limited to:
Classical Epic	Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid
Dante	The Divine Comedy and selected works
Tragedy and Comedy	Greek and Shakespearean drama
Milton	Paradise Lost and other major works
Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess
Shakespeare	Comedies, Tragedies, Roman Plays, History Plays
Augustan Literature	Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson
Romantic Poetry	Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats
Victorian Literature	Essays, poetry and fiction by major Victorian writers
Faulkner	Major novels and short stories
Southern Literature	Poetry, fiction, and criticism by Southern writers of the twentieth century
Twentieth-Century Literature	Major modern writers of fiction and poetry in England and America
Studies in the Novel	Major 18th and 19th century British and Continental novelists
Russian Novel	Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevski
Menippean Satire	Lucian, Petronius, Apuleius, Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, Sterne, Lewis Carroll, Joyce, John Barth
Literary Criticism	Theories of both the interpretation and the nature of poetic knowledge