OLLI101509 - Critique of James Joyce's Dubliners [In-person at TUCC]
Course Description
Critique of James Joyce’s Dubliners
Instructor: Richard Minuti
Dates: Mondays, Oct 2-Nov 27
No Class: Nov 20
Time: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Location: In-person at Center City (TUCC)
This is an 8 week course with a facilitator guiding and explaining James Joyce’s short story collection, Dubliners. Kindly note the stories are accessible and not difficult to understand, as opposed to Joyce’s challenging novels Ulysses or Finnegan’s Wake. Questions about the stories will be given prior to classes and all students are encouraged to participate. The text contains fifteen stories, and a bio of Joyce and the first story will be included in the first class. These stories are posted online and the text we will be using are either Dubliners, the Wordsworth Classics edition, Intro by Laurence Davies, or Dubliners, Dover Thrift edition, available on Amazon.
Maximum in-person registrants: 35
Instructor’s Bio:
Richard Minuti, B.S. in Social Work, Drexel University. Another prior degree includes a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy/English from a religious seminary in upstate New York. Also did extensive Graduate Studies in English at Villanova and West Chester Universities. Currently tutoring composition at Community College of Philadelphia and has done so for the past 20+years. Been a member of OLLI taking classes for two years now. Very much enjoys travelling, writing and exploring poetry, and doing not so hard crossword puzzles.
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