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London Studies 2013 brief studies to six month odysseys…

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22.01.13 Short Story study (one meeting) “The Liar” by Tobias Wolff Tuesday evening 8- 10 PM £30 “Short stories, like poems, demand a lot from their readers. Novels may be longer, but they don’t require the same compressed attention. They allow moments of relaxation; their narratives promise to hold you, however casual the concentration you invest.”
But Tobias Wolff, who is one of our great contemporary masters of the short story, says that the difficulty of the short story is its own reward. “The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story,” he once said. And the writer’s thrill is “working a miracle, making life where there was none” in the space of a few precisely and elegantly distilled pages.

04.02.13 Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf Four week study Monday afternoons 1-3 PM OR Monday Evenings 8-10 PM £65
Virginia Woolf’s lyric prose and gorgeous vision combine to consider the sense of exhaustion that punctuated the Modernist period leading up to WW II. Edward Mendelson describes the book: “Everything comes to an end in Between the Acts, and then, as the book itself comes to an end, something unknowable begins.”

31.01.13 The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner four week study 8- 10 PM Thursday Evenings £65
In William Faulkner’s first truly modernist work, he pushes to break through the confines of time and sequence to get at the essence of human nature- as Malcolm Bradbury explains, “Faulkner’s preoccupation with time has to do with the endless interlocking of personal and public histories and with the relation of the past to the lost, chaotic present.”

29.01.13 Ulysses starts week of January 28th–sign up now to get the notes and start reading! Choose either Monday afternoons 1-3 PM or Tuesday Evenings 8-10 PM From TS Eliot: I hold Ulysses to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape.

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