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- Historical fiction: reimagining and rewritingCourse start date: Thu 2 May 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate WilkinsonWhat’s the unique appeal of historical fiction? Why do we read it, and what are we looking for? This course investigates historical fiction written in the twenty-first century and how it reimagines the past for us as contemporary readers. Reading novels and short stories set in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we’ll explore historical fiction’s strategies, challenges and pleasures: how it can bring unknown stories into view and rewrite what we think we know. Includes Francis Spufford's Golden Hill (2016), Emma Donoghue's The Woman who Gave Birth to Rabbits (2002) and Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (2020).Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Space Crones and Sci-Fi WorldsCourse start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katie GossThis literature course focuses on the importance of science fiction writing as both a literary form and a mode of theorising the world we inhabit, and radically transforming our ways of interpreting it. Alongside the work of eminent sci-fi writers, including Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler and Ted Chiang, we’ll also consider literary theories of the fantastic and the kinds of contexts their texts have been addressed to. Across six weeks we will explore how works of science fiction enrich psychic, social and cultural life and help us grapple with the complex politics of the present.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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