Lecture 1. Understanding literature: some big questions

Lecture 2. Language

Lecture 3. The text

Lecture 4. The author

Lecture 5. The audience

Lecture 6. Genres

Lecture 7. Formalism and forms: primarily poetry

Lecture 8. Form, pattern, and symbol: prose

Lecture 9. Literature and the mind

Lecture 10. What is postmodernism and why are people saying such horrible things about it?

Lecture 11. Identity politics

Lecture 12. Culture and cultural production

Lecture 13. The literary canon

Lecture 14. What do we talk about when we talk about literature?