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LIT202

Categories: Part 2, University Courses

About Course

This course explores the Neoclassical Era as a period of discipline, reason, imitation, and artistic refinement. Students will examine how writers used literature as a tool for moral instruction, social criticism, and aesthetic perfection—while still being entertaining, witty, and deeply human.

What Will You Learn?

  • Understand the historical and intellectual background of the Neoclassical Era
  • Identify key features such as order, reason, decorum, and imitation
  • Analyze major works using stylistic and literary frameworks
  • Distinguish between different forms of satire and their functions
  • Examine how literature serves as a tool for social criticism
  • Apply Neoclassical principles to modern texts and contexts
  • Develop critical reading and analytical writing skills
  • Recognize the contributions of major writers like Pope, Swift, and Dryden

Course Content

Introduction to the Course

  • Historical Background
    14:17
  • The Contextual/ Literary Features of the Era
    09:02

Gulliver’s Travels

Beggar’s Opera

Absalom and Achitophel

The Rape of the Lock

Moll Flanders

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