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)