Module Level
8
Assessment
Continuous Assessment (Reflections & Participation): 40% Final Essay: 60%
Module Aims
The aim of this module is to (1) explore theological – including more broadly religious and philosophical – themes as they are presented and dramatized in literature and (2) familiarize students with some lesser-known Christian novelists and poets.
Learning Outcomes
- — Explain the main accomplishments and key works of select literary writers
- — Identify theological themes and allusions in select works of fiction and poetry
- — Describe the advantages and disadvantages of engaging with these themes through a literary medium rather than through a medium of formal exposition
Bibliography
- — C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)
- — Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
- — Flannery O’Connor (selections)
- — Caryl Houselander (The Dry Wood)
- — Gerald Manley Hopkins (selections)
- — George Herbert (selections)
- — T.S. Eliot (selections)