The Bible in English Literature
offered by Oxford University

Public University
1 Campus
Estd. 1096

The Bible in English Literature
at
Oxford University
Overview

Detailed knowledge of a range of English writers and significant portions of the Old and New Testaments

Duration	10 weeks
Total fee	₹19,400
Mode of learning	Online
Course Level	UG Certificate

The Bible in English Literature
at
Oxford University
Highlights

Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university

The Bible in English Literature
at
Oxford University
Course details

Skills you will learn

English Spoken English

What are the course deliverables?

To allow students to gain knowledge of a range of English writers and individual books and passages from the Bible
To help students understand through close textual analyses different techniques of literary imitation and allusion
To enhance appreciation of the Bible as a significant source for English literature
Be able to produce well-contextualized and effectively close critical analyses of literary texts in terms of biblical imitation, allusion and influence

More about this course

Explore a range of writers from the sixteenth century to the present day in terms of their relationship to the Bible
We will proceed each week author by author, but as we do so the full extent of the Bible shall reveal itself from Genesis through to Revelation
Learn about different techniques of literary imitation and allusion through the ages and discern the prevalent influence of the most important single source of English literature
To explore a range of literary texts in English in terms of their different relationships to the Bible

The Bible in English Literature
at
Oxford University
Curriculum

Week 0

An Introduction to Teams

Week 1

Introduction

Week 2

The Sidney Psalter

Week 3

Shakespeare: The Tempest, Genesis, and Revelation

Week 4

John Donne?s use of scripture in his Holy Sonnets and Sermons

Week 5

George Herbert?s The Temple and presentations

Week 6

Henry Vaughan?s Silex Scintillans and presentations

Week 7

John Milton?s Paradise Lost

Week 8

The Great Code of Art?: Christopher Smart and William Blake

Week 9

Victorian and Modernist employments of the Bible: G. M. Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce

Week 10

Contemporary Literature and the Bible

The Bible in English Literature
at
Oxford University
Faculty details

Dr Edward Clarke

Edward Clarke's latest collection of poems is called A Book of Psalms (Paraclete Press, 2020). He is also the author of two works of criticism: The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry (Iff Books, 2014) and The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).