Literature And Its Language

This course is an introduction to the major texts of Western culture.
Ranging from antiquity to the present, it places special emphasis on several of literature's most important aspects:
* The uniqueness of literary language
* The formal and generic conventions of literary production
* The position that literature occupies as a site for historical and ideological forces and conflicts
* The continuing human significance of the great works of the past and the present.

With gorgeous full-color illustrations, ornate decorative elements, lettering in metallic ink, and engaging text, The Language of Flowers: A Fully Illustrated Compendium of Meaning, Literature, and Lore for the Modern Romantic is a treasure for flower lovers. A sumptuous, contemporary anthology of 50 of the world's most storied and popular flowers, each of its entries offers insight to the meaning associated with the flower, and is a fascinating mix of foklore, classic mythology, literature, botanical information and popular culture.

Focussing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, "The Language of Silence" offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West German society.