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Join Professor Eric R. Williams to analyze dozens of movies that fall under the scope of “romance films” - inviting you to see your favorites in a new light and introducing you to the elements of romance films in movies you might not otherwise consider as such....

These lectures make classical mythology fresh, absorbing, and often surprising....

Why do "Great Books" continue to speak to us hundreds and even thousands of years after they were written?

These 36 lectures introduce you to Shakespeare's major plays and explain the achievement that makes him the leading playwright in Western civilization....

Whether you want to write your own scripts or simply gain a deeper appreciation for the great stories you see unfold on the screen, Professor Angus Fletcher is here to show you the way....

Dr. Hannah Blevins Harvey unpacks more than 60 of our most beloved stories, fables, fairy tales, and songs from around the world....

Grammar! For many of us, the word triggers memories of finger-wagging schoolteachers, and of wrestling with the ambiguous and complicated rules of using formal language....

Great mystery and suspense writers have created some of the most unforgettable stories in all of literature. Even those who don't consider themselves fans are familiar....

If you've ever been curious how words like "awesomesauce" ever came to be, let alone made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, English in America is for you....

Robots, spaceships, futuristic megacities, planets orbiting distant stars. These icons of science fiction are now in our daily news....

In 24 eye-opening lectures, Jane Friedman, publishing industry expert and educator, provides you with sought-after secrets of the publishing process that will help you....

These 24 spellbinding lectures reveal the full scope of the Arthurian tradition, from its beginnings in post-Roman Britain to its extraordinary trajectory across the centuries....

Building a Better Vocabulary offers an intriguing look at the nuts and bolts of English, teaches you the etymology and morphology, and delves into the cognitive science....

Language is not a passive means of communication. In fact, it's the active process through which we construct societies, and, within them, our own social lives and realities....

From evoking a scene to charting a plot to revising your drafts, Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques offers a master class in storytelling....

This fascinating collection crafted from our extensive library of courses, can now get a single course that represents 36 of our best lectures on literary works that changed the world....

Learn how authors "write into the gap" to flesh out-or, in some cases, reimagine altogether-old stories, making them new for new readerships with different values....

Linguistics, the study of language, has a reputation for being complex and inaccessible....

At just over 5,000 years old, writing is actually a relatively recent invention. It has become so central to the way we communicate and live....

Throughout the course, a host of literary "case studies" will refine and elaborate on the concepts of artful reading....