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| Courses - Literature and Philosophy |
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05 September 2010
- 08 September 2010
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| LATE 20TH CENTURY DRAMA ~ PART TWO
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Ref: L1249 |
| Richard Moore is a visiting lecturer in Literature at Newcastle University |
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| This course will be self-contained but will continue our earlier survey of the state of British Drama in the last half of the 20th Century. A range of varied texts will be read, discussed and studied, giving between them an enjoyable overview of theatrical enterprise on both the comic and serious fronts. |
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| Residential:
£255.00
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| Non-residential:
£155.00
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09 November 2010
- 12 November 2010
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| CREATIVE WRITING
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Ref: L1305 |
| Nick Corder is a freelance writer and teacher |
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| Ideas are great – we can’t write without them, but how do we get them onto the page and thrill the reader? There’ll be a mixture of workshops, one-to-one tutorials and classroom exercises, plus plenty of time to do some of your own writing. This is an opportunity for you to share your writing with other like-minded souls. Suitable for those new to writing, and those with more experience. |
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| Residential:
£285.00
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| Non-residential:
£185.00
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04 January 2011
- 06 January 2011
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| TWENTY YEARS ON: RUSSIAN WRITERS OF THE SOVIET ERA
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Ref: L1359 |
| David Lindley is a freelance lecturer and writer and was the WEA organiser for Cumbria |
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| An introduction to six writers who, between them, wrote against the grain of Soviet tyranny for seven decades, thereby creating some of the greatest literature of the twentieth century: Yevgeny Zamyatin (whose short 1920 novel We is the forerunner of 1984); Mikhail Bulgakov; Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak (both poets, though the latter is best known as the author of Dr Zhivago); Nadezhda Mandelstam (author of the great memoir Hope Against Hope) and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. |
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| Residential:
£185.00
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| Non-residential:
£125.00
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21 January 2011
- 23 January 2011
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| JANE’S WORLD ~ A GUIDE THROUGH THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN
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Ref: L1345 |
| Michael Travers is an experienced teacher of Philosophy and Literature |
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| On her ‘two square inches of ivory’ Jane Austen painted an inexhaustibly large universe. With brush strokes as fine as a scalpel’s cut, and with an unsurpassed delicacy of irony, humour and penetration, she finds what is immutable and eternal in human experience. This course will discuss her life and the six major novels, which reveal deep characterisation, profound and vivid psychological insight, and perfect balance. |
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| Residential:
£185.00
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| Non-residential:
£125.00
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27 February 2011
- 02 March 2011
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| A TASTE OF THE BRONTËS
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Ref: L1382 |
| Richard Moore is a visiting lecturer in Literature at Newcastle University |
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| This course will be a new look at some perennial favourites. Covering aspects of the lives of the Brontë sisters (and brother) it will especially focus on Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and the poems. For good measure we shall study Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea and look at other aspects of the Brontë legacy. |
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| Residential:
£255.00
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| Non-residential:
£155.00
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27 March 2011
- 30 March 2011
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| WARTIME MEMORIES
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Ref: L1409 |
| Jackie Wilkin is an experienced and inclusive tutor with a passionate enthusiasm for her subject |
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| From 1945 to 1947 over four million servicemen and women returned to civilian life in a battered, blitzed and shortage-ridden Britain. This course explores the impact of the second world war through three works of fiction: Elizabeth Jane Howard’s hugely enjoyable Cazalet Chronicle, Melvyn Bragg’s The Soldier’s Return and Ian McEwan’s hit novel Atonement. The link is the war’s effects on families. Family recollections of this time will be welcome and will form part of an enjoyable and worthwhile discussion. |
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| Residential:
£250.00
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| Non-residential:
£150.00
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