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An introduction to literature: poetry, prose and drama

You will read and discuss American classics such as The Great Gatsby (IF) (Fitzgerald), Death of a Salesman(IF) (Miller) and a range of American poetry by Plath, Dickenson, Bridge and others. Read and discuss 'Hard Times' by Dickens, 'A View from the Bridge' by Arthur Miller and the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Although this course is building on the skills achieved in the first 2 terms, new students are welcome.

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Date: 11 Apr 13 - 27 Jun 13
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Appreciating great American drama of the 20th century

View and discuss great American dramas, exploring text, performance and context in seminal plays by Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee. Includes theatre visit to William’s Sweet Bird of Youth on 20 July.

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Date: 6 Jul 13 - 27 Jul 13
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City Lit reading group

Share thoughts and ideas about what you are reading with books chosen by the group. Come to the first session with suggestions (contemporary fiction available in paperback) and 'The Help' by Kathryn Stockett. Monthly meetings on: 12/10, 09/11, 30/11, 18/01, 22/02, 15/03, 26/04, 17/05, 21/06.

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Clarice Cliff and her world

Art Deco designer Clarice Cliff was pioneering in her life and work. Discover how she achieved success and why women ‘simply clamoured' for her pottery, with Clarice Cliff biographer Lynn Knight. A trip to the V&A is included.

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Date: 23 Jul 13
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Devotional poets in secular times

You will read the divine poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Vaughan and Traherne and consider how and why this poetry still speaks to us today.

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Date: 15 Apr 13 - 1 Jul 13
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Drama in society

Read and discuss The Seagull (IF) by Chekov, Mrs Warren's Profession (IF) by Shaw and a modern play in production in London in terms of literary and performance texts and their social and political contexts.

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Date: 9 Apr 13 - 18 Jun 13
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Exploring European modernist poetry

How did the advances and conflicts of the 20th century find expression in the poetry of continental Europe? We shall discuss a wide range of leading figures including Valery, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Rilke, Lorca and Celan.

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Date: 10 Apr 13 - 19 Jun 13
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Film of the book

Compare the novel and its film adaptation. Consider obsession and desire in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (Clayton 1974 and Lurmann 2012), Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust (Schlesinger 1975) and The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer (Clayton 1964). No class on 9 May 2013.

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Date: 11 Apr 13 - 27 Jun 13
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From Dickens to Zola: Nineteenth Century social realists

An introduction to the pioneering and reforming fictions of Charles Dickens and Émile Zola. The course draws on a wide range of literary and visual sources to explore the purpose and influence of social realism in the second half of the nineteenth century.
We hope to visit the Foundling Museum as part of the course.

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Date: 26 Jul 13 - 16 Aug 13
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Gerald Manley Hopkins: Immortal Diamond

Hopkins’s poetry, combining radical technical innovation and robust colloquial eloquence, is Shakespearian in its assertiveness and unpredictability. This course will illuminate – alongside Hopkins’s prose – a representative selection, from the ‘Deutschland’ to the devastating final sonnets. Gerald Manley Hopkins: Immortal Diamond, literature, poetry.

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Date: 13 Aug 13
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