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Literature Courses in London

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.
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  1. Literature taster

    Literature taster

    Weekend
    Course Date: Sat 14 Sep 2019 (and 1 other date)
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    Do 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 join us to discover what makes a literature class at City Lit so special.
    Full fee: £19.00
    Senior fee: £19.00
    Concession: £10.00

  2. Modern Irish and British drama

    Course Date: Mon 16 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    Read and discuss some key drama texts from the last 50 years in terms of theme, character, language and as performance texts. Plays studied will include 'Betrayal' by Harold Pinter, Top Girls by Caryl Churchill and Translations by Brian Friel.
    Full fee: £179.00
    Senior fee: £143.00
    Concession: £79.00

  3. Ways into advanced literary study

    Ways into advanced literary study

    Evening
    Course Date: Mon 16 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

    8 Review(s)

    From Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson, from Charles Dickens to Ibsen, Henry James and Virginia Wolf, this course will enhance your appreciation of literary genres and styles from different periods, developing the rigour and skills of reading and writing that belong to a higher level of study. Includes three Saturdays.

    8 Review(s)

    Full fee: £439.00
    Senior fee: £439.00
    Concession: £220.00

  4. Proust Vol 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

    Course Date: Mon 16 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    Proust’s masterpiece comes to life with supportive resources and invigorated discussion. Through close reading of the second volume, we are immersed in the life of this most introspective narrator in the modernist classic.
    Full fee: £219.00
    Senior fee: £175.00
    Concession: £96.00

  5. British literature 1900-1950: travellers' tales

    Evening
    Course Date: Wed 18 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    Discover the ways in which British writers such as Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf and Christopher Isherwood used ‘travellers’ tales’ to explore themes of identity, history, creativity and transgression in the first half of the twentieth century.
    Full fee: £159.00
    Senior fee: £159.00
    Concession: £70.00

  6. Contemporary American writing by women

    Course Date: Wed 18 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    The American canon is dominated by white, male writers. In this course, we seek to rectify this by exploring the work of women from all backgrounds working across disciplines. Authors include Joan Didion, Alice Walker, Amy Tan and Siri Hustvedt.
    Full fee: £219.00
    Senior fee: £175.00
    Concession: £96.00

  7. Myths and classics retold: from Jean Rhys to Colm Toibin

    Course Date: Wed 18 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    We will read reworkings of canonical myths and classics including Colm Toibin's House of Names (the Oresteia), Christa Wolf's Cassandra, Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (The Iliad), John Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius (Hamlet) and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (Jane Eyre).
    Full fee: £179.00
    Senior fee: £143.00
    Concession: £79.00

  8. Fiction narratives: how symbols reach our deepest feelings

    Course Date: Wed 18 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    What makes some stories more memorable than others so that, once we’ve read them, we never forget them? We explore how some stories are more powerful and memorable than others because they use symbols which reach directly to our deepest desires and fears.
    Full fee: £219.00
    Senior fee: £175.00
    Concession: £96.00

  9. 19th century American literature

    Course Date: Thu 19 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    This class explores 19th century American literature, from slave narratives to the works of the American Renaissance, reading classic texts to broaden knowledge of literary history through a range of influential stories, poems and novels. Among the writers considered will be Irving, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, and Twain.
    Full fee: £179.00
    Senior fee: £143.00
    Concession: £79.00

  10. An introduction to literature: drama. Image: Antony and Cleopatra by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

    An introduction to literature: drama

    Course Date: Thu 19 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

    3 Review(s)

    You will read, discuss and view extracts from three plays: Hamlet by Shakespeare, The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett in terms of theme, character, language and how they work as performance texts.

    3 Review(s)

    Full fee: £219.00
    Senior fee: £175.00
    Concession: £96.00

  11. London lowlife in fiction

    Course Date: Fri 20 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    We will explore the themes of poverty, politics, gender and ethnicity in London at the end of the 19th century/start of the 20th century through the eyes of writers of fiction, but also through the testimony of their non-fiction contemporaries – social investigators, government officials, journalists and philanthropists.
    Full fee: £149.00
    Senior fee: £119.00
    Concession: £66.00

  12. Shakespeare the controversialist

    Course Date: Fri 20 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    Shakespeare’s plays continue to stimulate intense debate. This course offers the opportunity to consider and compare four which have proved especially contentious. Through close reading we shall see how Shakespeare’s art still challenges our assumption.
    Full fee: £389.00
    Senior fee: £311.00
    Concession: £171.00

  13. East goes West: Pamuk and Kundera

    Course Date: Thu 26 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    What can the visionary journeys of two of the most celebrated and controversial figures in World Literature teach us about the experience of living on the edge, geographically and culturally, of the European continent at the end of the 20th century and today?
    Full fee: £179.00
    Senior fee: £143.00
    Concession: £79.00

  14. Shaping the American literary landscape

    Evening
    Course Date: Thu 26 Sep 2019
    Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street
    Discover writers who made fiction so potent in the second half of the American century. Includes James Baldwin, John Updike, John Cheever, Tim O'Brien, Joan Didion and Marilynne Robinson.
    Full fee: £119.00
    Senior fee: £119.00
    Concession: £52.00

  15. The poetry of Keats: a literary workshop

    The poetry of Keats: a literary workshop

    Weekend
    Course Date: Sat 28 Sep 2019 (and 1 other date)
    Location on this date: OS - Off Site

    4 Review(s)

    Read and discuss some of Keats' poetry in the location in which many of them were written. Explore 'The Odes' and 'The Eve of St. Agnes'. The course takes place at Keats House and is led by literature tutor Jenny Baynes.

    4 Review(s)

    Full fee: £49.00
    Senior fee: £49.00
    Concession: £49.00

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