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Clare Jackson
'Openings'
For further details of the texts to be covered in Clare's Season Three course, please click the green button.
Michael Ayton
'Images of Saint Petersburg in Romantic, Silver-Age and Modernist Russian Literature'
For further details of the texts to be covered in Michael's Season Three course, please click the green button.
John Sadler
'Great Battles 451-1898'
For further details of the areas to be covered in John's Season Three course, please click the green button.
Bronwen Calvert
'Contemporary Voices: Five Short Stories'
For details of the texts to be covered in Bronwen's Season Three course, please click the green button.
Jo Finlay Smith
Uyghur Islam in a Time of Religious “De-extremification” & Mass Internment
For further details of Jo's work following her presentation, please click the green button below.
Bronwen Calvert
The Literary Essay
For details & online links to the featured texts relating to Bronwen's Thursday afternoon literature course, please follow the green button below.
Bronwen Calvert
Form and Theme in Poetry 2
For details & online links to the featured texts relating to Bronwen's Thursday afternoon literature course, please follow the green button below.
Peter Quinn
Scotland's Art
Suggested Reading for Peter's Season three course 'Scotland's Art' can be found via the green button below:
Bronwen Calvert
Retelling and Rewriting in Fiction
For details & online links to the featured texts relating to Bronwen's Thursday afternoon literature course, please follow the green button below.
Bronwen Calvert
Form and Theme in Poetry
Each week we will read and discuss a few poems on a single theme. We’ll look at formal features of each poem – structure, rhyme and rhythm, imagery, tone – and we’ll compare the ways different poets approach the same theme.
For details & online links to the featured poems, please follow the green button below.
Gordon Reavley
Bridge, Hinge or Roadblock
Gordon has provided some links which members may find helpful for his Wednesday 28th November session. To access the links, please follow the green button below.
Peter Quinn
Photographers
Suggested Reading for Peter's Season Two course 'Photographers' can be found via the green button below:
Jean Conteh
Finding Common Ground Through African Writers
Jean has provided some extra details in advance of her morning and lunchtime session in Week 10, looking at a selection of texts by African writers.
Claire Nally
Our Common Ground with Women Writers: Susan Glaspell’s ‘A Jury of Her Peers’ (1917) and Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'
Claire will be discussing the Susan Glaspell and Kate Chopin texts in this session and advance reading would be beneficial. If you do not have access to an existing copy you can find various links online via the buttons below.
Gordon Reavley
Work in Art
Gordon has suggested some links to additional context for anyone wishing to read more around the issues raised in his course starting Wednesday 2nd May. You can access the links via the green button.
Bronwen Calvert
Contemporary Nature Writing
Bronwen has suggested a further reading list for anyone wishing to read more on the subject, following her Season Three course.
Pamela Woof
The Writing of Wallace Stevens
Pamela has provided a list of the poems she will be selecting from in her session looking at Wallace Stevens' work.
You can find links to the poems in the document via the green button.
Colm O'Brien
Bede
Colm has provided a more detailed breakdown of his 5 week course, starting Thursday 22nd February. Please click on the button below to find out more about what will be covered each week in this fascinating deconstruction of Bede's history.
Max Adams
Sketches of Women
Max has provided the handouts for his Friday morning 5-week course, looking at a range of female characters and histories, from the late Roman times to the Enlightenment.
Sophie Heughlin
Hexham: Abbey and Sele Under Investigation
Following Sophie's week one session, looking at how a researchers are studying Hexham Abbey and grounds using 3D scanners and remote sensors, she has provided some additional links for anyone wishing to read further.
Michael Ayton
Hildgard of Bingen
Michael has offered some suggested reading and weblinks following his Wednesday 29th November session looking at Hildegard of Bingen.
Martin Wheeler
Ivor Gurney
Martin has offered some suggested reading and weblinks following his Tuesday 21st November session looking at the life and work of Ivor Gurney.
Michael Ayton
Sessions starting Wednesday 1st November 2017
Dante’s Paradiso: Suggestions for Reading
Michael has offered some suggested reading for his series of sessions looking at Dante's Paradiso.
Please note that this is not required reading but suggested for any members wishing to delve further.
Max Adams
Friday 11.00-13.00
Course running 6th October to 3rd November
Watching trees: the private lives of trees and woods in Britain's landscapes
Max has provided some handouts to illustrate his fantastic sessions this season, which you can access by clicking the buttons below.
Michael Johnson
Friday 10.30 - 12.00
Design History Course starting 10th November
Michael has provided some extra details and suggested, additional reading. You can view the document via the button below.
Jean Conteh
Thursday 22nd June 10.30-12.00 & 12.30-13.30
African Voices on Identity & Belonging
Jean has provided a suggested reading list for her session on Thursday 22nd June (morning and lunchtime sessions)
You can access the Reading List by clicking the button below.
Jessica Medhurst
Tuesday 23rd & 30th May
Childhood Flight to Adult Fame (Session 1 Morning & Lunchtime) &
From the Female Perspective
(Session 2 Morning & Lunchtime)
Jessica has provided a suggested reading list for her sessions on Tuesday 23rd & 30th May (morning and lunchtime sessions)
You can access the Reading List by clicking the button below.
Michael Ayton
Tuesday 9th May 2017
Morning Session - Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
The poem that brought its author overnight fame and cemented the archetype of the Byronic hero. We’ll home in on its most powerful passages.
The poem can be found at any of these links: http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Byron/charoldt.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5131/5131-h/5131-h.htm
https://englishhistory.net/byron/poems/childe-harolds-pilgrimage/r.
Lunchtime Session - Anton Chekhov’s In Exile
You can view a translation of the story by following this link:
Michael Ayton
Sessions Starting Wednesday 3rd May 2017
Dante’s Purgatorio: Suggestions for Reading
Michael has offered some suggested reading for his series of sessions looking at Dante's Purgatorio.
Please note that this is not required reading but suggested for any members wishing to delve further.
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