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Reading SeminarsLove and Relationships: From Zora Neale Hurston to Octavia Butler...to You!F12-R01
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Monthly Story SlamTues., May 15, 7-8:30 p.m. Lunch Break Book TalksHosted by Steve Huff Book Discussions at Valley ManorMay 16, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. The Culinary Reading and Discussion GroupHosted by Sandy Bosworth & Kathy Pottetti
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From Hurston’s seminal novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God that speaks to how we learn to love ourselves and others - to Butler’s powerful treatise, The Parable of the Talents that explores how we forge community through expanding and enhancing our innate understanding of love and relationship, this class will explore these novels of two award winning female novelists who just happen to be black. Themes explored include “alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, and separation and community”. The powerful ancestral voices of these women call to each of us to “make it right” in a “society whose very fabric has been torn asunder”.
Join me for a guided reading of Ulysses. Compared to last year, I will utilize somewhat different extracts and episodes but some old favorites cannot be ignored. Any edition of the book will do. No prior knowledge of Shakespeare, Dante, F laubert, the Bible or Thom’s Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland pages 1335-2106 [1904] required.
A study and discussion of 7 of Shakespeare’s Comedies (Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, 12th Night, The Tempest), There are three goals to the Course: 1. To understand each Comedy in itself; 2. To understand Shakespearean Comedy in general; 3. To understand Comedy in general.