OLLI101584 - Exploring Heritages and Niches in Literature
Course Description
EXPLORING HERITAGES AND NICHES IN LITERATURE
Instructor: Lyle Murley
Day of Week: Tuesdays
Dates: June 4 – July 23 (8 sessions)
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Location: In-person at Center City
We will be reading novels, plays, and poems to explore writers’ ways of articulating their own explorations. Summer will be an introduction for a fuller course in the fall. We will read and discuss such works as Pedro Paramo, The Woman Warrior, Leopoldstadt, and The Bluest Eye, along with a number of poems. For the first day, read a group of poems, each one available online: Emily Dickinson, The Brain is Wider than the Sky; Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar, and Of Mere Being; Sterling Brown, Strong Men; Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck; and Harryette Mullen, We are not Responsible.
Maximum: 40
Instructor Bio: Lyle Murley, PhD, English, Northwestern University; MA, English, University of Chicago; BA English, St. Olaf College. Lyle was a professor of English at California Lutheran University, chair of the department, and now a professor emeritus. He was professor of the year on two occasions and received the Sears Roebuck Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence.
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