Literature Index

Literature Overview

Literature studies written artistic expression through narrative, poetic language, dramatic structure, argument, interpretation, and cultural meaning. It examines how texts use voice, form, symbolism, genre, and rhetoric to represent experience, persuade readers, preserve memory, and imagine possible worlds. Across fiction, poetry, drama, literary theory, and composition, the discipline connects creative writing with criticism, history, and language.

Disciplines

• Fiction

  Study invented narrative writing through plot, character, setting, point of view, conflict, style, genre, and prose structure.

• Poetry

  Examine compressed literary expression through rhythm, imagery, metaphor, sound, form, lineation, symbolism, and emotional resonance.

• Drama

  Study written works for performance through dialogue, stage action, conflict, character, scene structure, and theatrical form.

• Literary Theory

  Explore critical frameworks for interpreting texts, authorship, meaning, ideology, genre, culture, language, and reader response.

• Rhetoric and Composition

  Learn persuasive writing, argument structure, discourse analysis, composition process, audience awareness, and written communication.