Literature
We offer a wide range of literature courses at City Lit. From contemporary & classical literature, and novels to short stories, as well as our popular reading groups, you will find a course to suit your literary needs. In addition, please take a look at our new range of one-off workshops and study days run in partnership with the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
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Classics reading group
Course Date: Mon 30 Oct 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetCome and discuss some of the great books from the golden age of the novel - the 19th century. We’ll be reading and talking about classics such as Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Jane Austen’s Emma. Classes on 30/10/17, 4/12/17, 5/218 and 12/3/18.Full fee: £79.00Senior fee: £63.00Concession: £35.00 -
Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath: bursting all the doors
Course Date: Thu 2 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetNo two voices could be more dissimilar, yet the impact of both remains unparalleled in American women’s poetry. Explore the full range of Dickinson’s and Plath’s art - passionate, candid, dangerously subversive, controversial and adored.Full fee: £89.00Senior fee: £89.00Concession: £39.00 -
Dubliners: between paralysis and epiphany in 'Two Sisters' and 'The Dead'
Course Date: Sat 4 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetDip into James Joyce in a dynamic one-day course with two selections from Dubliners. We will consider the nature of paralysis and epiphany in ‘Two Sisters’ and ‘The Dead’. Please read these in preparation.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
Introduction to poetry
Course Date: Sat 4 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetAlways wanted to read and discuss poetry? Enjoy this introduction to a range of poetry from the last 400 years and explore how the poets shape our responses.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
The poetry of Yeats: a life in verse
Course Date: Sat 11 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetFrom the lyrical verse of 'The Wanderings of Oisin' (1889) to the modernism of 'Last Poems' (1938), learn of the remarkable journey of one of the 20th century's greatest poets.Full fee: £79.00Senior fee: £63.00Concession: £40.00 -
Sweet cravings and a Schiaparelli dress: women write about the 1940s
Course Date: Sat 18 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetConsider how women saw their lives and their future at the end of the Second World War via two enduring novels: Muriel Spark’s 'The Girls of Slender Means' and Mollie Panter-Downes’ 'One Fine Day'.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
Frank O'Hara and the New York School
Course Date: Sun 19 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street‘Urbane, ironic, celebratory, wildly funny’, Frank O’Hara’s poetry registers the pulse of post-war New York, city of abstract expressionism, modern jazz and innovatory poets, many of whom circled O’Hara’s sun.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
Masters of Eastern European modernism: Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz
Course Date: Sat 25 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore two of the greatest 20th century writers, Czech and Polish, whose imaginations pull in exactly opposite directions, towards austerity and microscopic realism or towards fantasy and linguistic intoxication - both with magical and spellbinding results.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £49.00Concession: £22.00 -
Literature taster
Course Date: Sat 2 Dec 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetDo you want to find out how to go about understanding a poem or how to do a close reading of a work of fiction? Come and find out what makes a literature class at City Lit so special.Full fee: £19.00Senior fee: £19.00Concession: £10.00 -
Introduction to literature: drama
Course Date: Mon 8 Jan 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetRead and discuss plays including 'Hamlet' by Shakespeare and 'Death of a Salesman' by Arthur Miller in terms of language, characterisation, ideas , structure and how they work as performance texts.Full fee: £139.00Senior fee: £139.00Concession: £61.00 -
Classic drama
Course Date: Mon 8 Jan 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetRead view and discuss three classic plays : Euripides 'The Trojan Women', 'Measure for Measure' by Shakespeare and 'The Duchess of Malfi' by John Webster in terms of themes, language,and social and historical contexts and how they work as performance texts.Full fee: £179.00Senior fee: £179.00Concession: £79.00 -
Visiting London theatre today
Course Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetSee a play every other week, mostly off West End and fringe theatre. Explore the playwright's work beforehand and analyse and discuss the production afterwards. Fee includes contribution towards theatre tickets. The first session is at City Lit. If you miss this session please contact Humanities on 020 7492 2652. Visits on 16/1, 30/1, 13/2, 27/2 and 13/3.Full fee: £309.00Senior fee: £309.00Concession: £209.00 -
Joyce's toolkit
Course Date: Tue 9 Jan 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetStudy Homer's Odyssey, Hamlet and selections from Joyce's Portrait of the Artist, considering the questioning and dissenting mind across ages. Satisfying on its own, this course will be excellent preparation for a study of Joyce's Ulysses.Full fee: £179.00Senior fee: £143.00Concession: £79.00 -
The emperor of ice cream: why Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore and Frank O'Hara matter
Course Date: Wed 10 Jan 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore why these three poets are important for their original uses of language and form, their wit and humour, and their life-long belief that poetry can enrich the reader’s imagination.Full fee: £179.00Senior fee: £143.00Concession: £79.00 -
An introduction to literature: poetry and prose
Course Date: Thu 11 Jan 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetDiscover the basic tools and techniques used to analyse poetry and prose. You will read and discuss a wide range of poetry and prose including the novel 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot and some short stories.Full fee: £179.00Senior fee: £143.00Concession: £79.00