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- Classic drama: Antigone, Measure for Measure, The Country WifeCourse start date: Mon 13 May 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jenny StevensWe will read and discuss three classic plays: Sophocles’ Antigone, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and William Wycherley’s The Country Wife. Focusing closely on structure, language and tone, we will consider how dramatists across time have explored themes such as sexual politics, family relationships and state power through their plays, as well as considering the social, cultural and historical contexts in which they were produced.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Contemporary British and international fictionCourse start date: Wed 18 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Aamer HusseinWe explore a brief and careful selection of recent novels in English, considering aspects of literature and the lives of writers, examining the contemporary perspective from which we reread and reinterpret classic texts to bridge the gap between past and present. Writers include Edward St Aubyn, Kathy O’Shaughnessy, Hari Kunzri, Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng, and British-Palestinian Isabella Hammad.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - City Lit reading group 2Course start date: Fri 20 Sep 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Patricia SweeneyShare thoughts and ideas about what you are reading, with books chosen by the group. Please come to the first session with suggestions (contemporary literary fiction in paperback) and having read 'The Wren, The Wren' by Anne Enright. Monthly meetings take place on 20 Sept, 25 Oct, 29 Nov; 17 Jan, 21 Feb, 21 March, 02 May, 30 May and 27 June.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Key Texts of 20th and 21st century drama: Harvey Granville Baker, Tom Stoppard, Lucy PrebbleCourse start date: Mon 23 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jenny StevensThis course will explore the concerns, styles and influences of three dramatic texts from the 20th and 21st centuries and how they reflect the social, political and cultural conditions in which they were written. It focuses primarily on Harley Granville Barker’s Waste, Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, and Lucy Prebble’s The Effect, making multiple connections between them as the course progresses.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - The Book of Love: great novels of love and passionCourse start date: Mon 23 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Julian BirkettMany of the world's greatest books – as well as many of the worst - have taken romantic love as their theme. Take this opportunity to read some of the very best - novels which explore the complexity, heartbreak and frustration as well as the ecstasy of this most powerful human emotion.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Great European Short StoriesCourse start date: Tue 24 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Julian BirkettThe short story in Europe has characteristics all of its own. While British, Irish and American stories are rooted in psychological realism, many European writers have tended towards a more philosophical approach, reflecting the concerns of the modern age as experienced by the sensibilities of individual writers. Authors such as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka and Albert Camus are masters of the kinds of tale which ask profound question about the nature of our existence. They are also supreme stylists capable of sustaining a gripping narrative. - From Nonsense to the Surreal: Edward Lear to Angela CarterCourse start date: Wed 25 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laurie SmithSurrealism is one of the great developments of 20th century literature. It’s different from the fantasies of previous centuries (fairy and folk tales, imaginative stories set in remote parts of the world, satires, science fiction) because it expresses complex bizarre experiences that many people recognise as possibly part of themselves. It may reflect desires which are difficult to admit but are sometimes expressed with wit and humour. We explore how surrealism developed from the apparent nonsense of three 19th century English writers.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - City Lit reading group 1Course start date: Fri 27 Sep 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate WilkinsonShare thoughts and ideas about what you are reading, with books chosen by the group. Please come to the first session on Friday 29 September with suggestions (contemporary fiction in paperback) and having read 'Piranesi' by Susanna Clarke. Meetings take place on 27/9, 01/11, 06/12; 24/01, 28/2, 28/03, 09/5, 06/06, 04/07/25.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Latin 4 lower: module 1Course start date: Mon 30 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Justin MurrayContinue to study Latin grammar and improve your skills at reading and translating Latin texts, as well as exploring Roman culture and history. Based on Reading Latin, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2 volumes.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Latin 2: module 1Course start date: Mon 30 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Doukissa KaminiImprove your knowledge of Latin grammar and your ability to read and write Latin, as well as exploring Roman culture and history. Suitable if you have completed Latin 1 or have an equivalent knowledge.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Latin 4 upper: module 1Course start date: Tue 1 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sean GabbContinue to study Latin grammar and improve your skills at reading and translating Latin texts as well as exploring Roman culture and history. Starting with Reading Latin, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2 volumes then moving on to original texts.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Latin 3: module 1Course start date: Wed 2 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Doukissa KaminiImprove your knowledge of Latin grammar and your ability to read and write Latin, as well as exploring Roman culture and history.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Latin 1: module 1Course start date: Wed 2 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
An introduction to Latin, or a reminder of what you have forgotten, if you are rusty.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Latin language and culture level 1: module 1Course start date: Thu 3 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
An introduction to Latin, or a reminder of what you have forgotten, if you are rusty. Based on Reading Latin, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2 volumes).
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £136.00 - Tales from everywhere: international fictions from the 20th centuryCourse start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Aamer HusseinJoin us to read and discuss a selection of novels from the 1950s and 1960, in English and in translation, some of which, like Stan Barstow’s powerful story of upward mobility A Kind of Loving and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s poignant portrait of unrest in Kenya Weep Not, My Child, have rarely been out of print. Some are recent rediscoveries, such as Han Suyin’s story of forbidden romance in wartime London, Winter Love, and Chingiz Aitmatov’s delicate Kyrgyz fable, Jamilia. Fresh translations of Magda Szabo’s Iza’s Ballad and Tove Ditlevsen’s autobiographical coming of age story,Youth, are also included.
NB. This course will have a break week on Wednesday 29 May.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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