Lit@MIT
This tier of subject offerings include classes that introduce students to canonical texts and authors (Foundations of Western Literature or Shakespeare, for instance), or to a literary form (Reading Poetry), or to particular national literatures (American Literature)...
What is The Introductory (21L.000 – 21L.048)?
Tender is the Night, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Last Tycoon, The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unseen in the Shakespeare play, Rosaline gets her story told from this titled character's perspective.
Who is Romeo?
A young girl becomes increasingly aware of the hypocrisy and prejudice in her small southern town in this coming-of-age story; it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 depicting racial injustice in a small Southern town
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Thematic Complex or Historical Period Major/Breadth Requirement? Genre; Author Study; Film, Media & Popular Culture; Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Theory
What are Thematic Complexes?
"Seedy"-sounding narrator of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel
Who is Nick Carraway?
A disillusioned teen is fed up with all the "phoniness" in the world in this novel; "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye."
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
Thematic Complex or Historical Period Major/Breadth Requirement: Ancient & Medieval; Renaissance; Restoration and 18th Century; 19th Century; 20th Century & Contemporary
What are Historical Periods?
Lilith's Brood: The Xenogenesis series (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago), Kindred, Parable of the Sower
Who is Octavia Butler?
According to Homer, Penelope agreed to marry the one who could string this man's huge bow
Who is Odysseus?
With this book Jane Austen satirized the fashion for novels like those of Ann Radcliffe
What is Northanger Abbey?
This major city is recognized for its excellence in publishing both Spanish & Catalan literature
What is Barcelona?
A Literature Minor lays the foundation for advanced study by enhancing the student’s appreciation of major narrative, poetic and dramatic texts in relation to the cultures that produced them. Minors must complete a total of 6 subjects. What are the two track categories?
What are Film Track or Literature Tracks? (400 points if you can name one Spring 2021 course)
To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves
Who is Virginia Woolf?
Created around 1831, he's literature's most famous bell-ringer
Who is Quasimoto?
In the satiric 1729 essay, Swift suggested dining on poor Irish children to control poverty
What is A Modest Proposal?
"Never Let Me Go" is by this Japanese-born British writer, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
Who is Kazuo Ishiguro?
Seminars are designed for students who have completed two prior subjects in Literature and focus in Literary Methods, Studies in Fiction/Drama/Poetry/Film/Literary History, Major Authors, or Problems in Cultural Interpretation. What are Spring 2021 Seminars?
(500 points for each Spring 2021 answer)
Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far from the Madding Crowd
Who is Thomas Hardy?
One minute, this 1890 title guy is young & handsome; the next, his old corpse is only identifiable by his rings. In literature Basil Hallward is the artist who paints the picture of him
Who is Dorian Gray?