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English IV
1The Hero's Road: The Epic Tradition2Faith and Ambition: Medieval and Renaissance Literature3Reason and Ridicule: Enlightenment and Satire4Imagination and Industry: Romantic and Victorian Literature5Fragments and Meaning: Modern and Postmodern Literature6Empire's Echoes: Postcolonial and Contemporary World Literature7Writing for What Comes Next: College-Readiness Composition8The Waste Land: War and Literature9Brave New Worlds: Dystopian and Speculative Fiction10The Meaningless Universe: Existentialism and Absurdism in Literature11Voices of the World: Global Poetry12Critical Conversations: Advanced Literary Criticism13The Writer's Workshop: Creative Writing14The Examined Text: Senior Capstone
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The Hero's Road: The Epic Tradition

From the mead-halls of Anglo-Saxon England to the wine-dark sea of ancient Greece, epic poetry encodes the values, fears, and aspirations of entire civilizations. Students analyze the conventions of the epic tradition and trace the archetype of the hero across cultures and millennia.

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