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Literature Short Courses
As a literature lover, you must be interested in the following courses delivered by the renowned Dr Max Hui-Bon-Hoa and other teachers in the field.
Biblical Poetry
ELIT9106 1655-1347NW
Monday 26 November 2018
You may also be interested in the following tutors' short courses:
Dr Anita C K Lee
An Introduction to Feminist Literary Theory
ELIT9109 1660-1416NW
Tuesday 11 December 2018
Dr Ahmed Elbeshlawy
Love and its Cultural Politics
ELIT9098 1660-1224NW
Wednesday 12 December 2018
More courses with Dr Max Hui-Bon-Hoa in 2019
19th Century American Fiction
7, 14 & 21 January 2019
Some of the most well-known novels in the world were written in the 19th Century. American writers also contributed to this phenomenon. This course will look at the shorter works of three important American novelists who were active in their writing career during the first half of this great century.
1 Nathaniel Hawthorne: “Young Goodman Brown”; “Rappaccini’s daughter”
2 Herman Melville: “Bartleby”
3 Edgar Allan Poe “The fall of the house of Usher”; “Ligeia”
Modern American Playwrights
4, 11, 18, 25 March; 1 April 2019
The first 50 years in 20th Century America saw the production of some of the best plays as well as their theatrical productions. In this course, we will study the works of five playwrights.
1 Susan Glaspell: Trifles
2 Tennessee Williams: Night of the iguana
3 Arthur Miller: The Crucible
4 Lillian Hellman: Little Foxes
5 Eugene O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey into Night
African American Women Poets
20 & 27 May and 3 June 2019
This course focuses on nine African women poets from different periods in American history, and will discuss how their works form a unique tradition in the literary landscape.
1 Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, Margaret Walker
2 Alice Walker, Nikki Giovanni, Phyllis Wheatley
3 Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Sonia Sanchez