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LITERATURE AN AMERICAN SHORT STORY SAMPLER Susan Glassman | Ph.D., English, University of Rhode Island Join us in reading a sample of short story - master pieces by both well-known and lesser-known American writers. The stories we will discuss include landmark works by Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, and other interesting writers who demon strate skill in characterizing the human spirit and the social values of the time in which they were writing. We will analyze themes, charac ters, settings, symbolism, and style, as well as look at contemporary interpretations. You may find wonderful short stories that you don’t already know. COURSE CODE: AMSS Sec. 01: 8 Tuesdays, 10:30am-11:45am. Begins Apr. 5 | $260 Sec. 02: 8 Tuesdays, 2-3:15pm. Begins Apr. 5 | $260
BETRAYAL
ALICE MUNRO: THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN Petra Bittner | Literature Instructor
The Canadian short story writer, Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, has been describe as revolutionizing the architecture of short sto Perhaps the central theme of human history isHer stories have been said to embed more than announce, reveal betrayal and its mirror image, self-betrayal. This more than parade. The stories of this collection deal with Munr perennial theme is to be echoed through many cal themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and ordinary lives. In this cla literary forms including the Bible, Shakespeare, and fiction/we’ll non-fiction read and discuss one short story a week. For our first meeti bestseller lists. Through critical reading and vigorous discussion, we“Cortes Island”. Please please read: Theobtain: Love of a Good will explore Henry James’ The Beast in the Jungle; Albert Camus’ The Woman by Alice Munro (ISBN: 978-03 57 638) Fall; Harold Pinter’s Betrayal; John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in COURSE CODE: MURO From the Cold; and the foundation Genesis narrative of Adam and Eve. Gershon Weisenberg | Asst.Professor, Northeastern University (RET)
COURSE CODE: BETR Sec. 01: 10 Tuesdays, 11am-12:30pm. Begins Apr. 5 | $280
ON STILL MAULED BUT CONSTRUCTIVE LIVES: PRISON WRITING BY PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THE WRITING OF CORRECTIONAL
Sec. 02: 6 Wednesdays, 2-3:30pm. Begins May 4 | $170
SELECTED MODERN FICTION FROM SOUTH ASIA Margery Sabin | Lorraine Chiu Wang Professor of English Emerita
Some of the most compelling modern and contem porary literature has come from South Asia, formerly Ravi Shankar | Professor, Author, Correctional: A Memoir known as British India. We will read three gripping novels that open a window into South Asia and its dramatic int As we collectively reckon with mass incarceration, with the West: E.M. Forster (an English author) A Passage , to India this course examines prison memoirs as a lens into (1924), Amitav The , Shadow Lines carceral spaces that keep certain people in and the Ghosh (born in post- colonial India) (198 ), and Mohsin Hamid (an American- educated Pakistani author), public out. Pushcart Prize winner, Dr. Ravi Shankar will delve into writing his memoir, Correctional: A Memoir, then lead a discussion of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (20 7). No prior knowledge of South Asia is required or expected. prison memoirs by Americans of color, including Austin Reed, Assata Shakur, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and more. These texts will - be ap C O U R S E C O D E : S OA S proached as literary artifacts that shed light on the prison industrial Sec. 01: 8 Thursdays, 10:30am-12pm. Begins Apr. 7 | $250 complex.
C O U R S E C O D E : JA I L Sec. 01: 8 Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30pm. Begins Apr. 5 | $250
SELF-EXPLORATION THROUGH LITERATURE Jane Katims | M.Ed, Author, Dancing on a Slippery Floor and Until Now
The trials and triumphs of certain fictional chara as well as the compelling voices of certain memoir ists and essayists, seem as real as those of our friends and adversaries. The authors write with insight and in about human emotions. We’ll use contemporary works as points of departure, as we ask ourselves: What are our feelings and attitu about the story characters, memoirists, and essayists? What do o Consider a CCAE emotional responses reveal about ourselves and the wider wor Please buy or locate the following These books: Precious Days by Ann Gift Certificate! Patchett, Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant, and Angle on the Roofby Purchase gift certificates online, over the phone, or in Russell Banks.
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person. Visit ccae.org/gift- certificates for more details. COURSE CODE: WTSE
Sec. 01: 8 Wednesdays, 12-1:30pm. Begins Apr. 6 | $260 30
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