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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT March 20, 2024
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
Archetypal Innovation at the Fin-de-Siècle: Creating the Modern Detective, Vampire, Gothic, and Scientist with Dr. Anastasia Klimchynskaya
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 20 to June 5, 2024
Meet the modern detective, the vampire, and the scientist: archetypes that haunt our cultural imagination to this day, born during the 1890s—a...
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Groups+Workshops
Reading Barbara Pym with Han Ong
Four Sessions Saturdays, 12:30 pm EDT - 2:00 pm EDT March 23 to April 20, 2024
In Person | Pym is beloved for her books about spinsters and vicars and anthropologists, all of whom she guides with a gentle hand and...
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Groups+Workshops
Bending Memory: Exploring Amélie Nothomb’s Autobiographies with Thais Vitorelli
Five Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 25 to July 15, 2024
Experience and discuss Nothomb’s unique approach to autobiographical fiction—each of the selected novels offers a distinct perspective on...
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Groups+Workshops
See It from My Perspective: Exploring the Impact of POV with Sheila Kohler
Six Sessions Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 25 to July 1, 2024
Look at different kinds of narrators and what effect each has on the story: from first-person-distant and third-person narrators to mysterious...
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Groups+Workshops
The Agony and the Malice: Heartbreak in French Literature with Dr. Lise-Ségolène Schreier
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 27 to June 26, 2024
In Person | Feeling heartbroken? Find solace in heartbreak stories that offer validation and distraction. Dive into French literature’s...
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Groups+Workshops
The Political and the Domestic: Dickens and Contemporaries with Amanda Hollander
Seven Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 28 to June 27, 2024
In Person | Read novels by Dickens, Gaskell, and Brontë from the middle of the 19th century, traversing city and bureaucracy, interiority...
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Groups+Workshops
The Stories of NYC: Henry James's New York with Sheridan Hay
Four Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 3 to April 24, 2024
Delve into James’s poignant tales set in the city that shaped his consciousness, from the vibrant streets of Washington Square...
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Groups+Workshops
The Supernatural and the Self with Lesley Finn
Three Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 4 to May 30, 2024
In Person | What does an early-1900s British novel about a spinster have in common with a contemporary personal history from a Colombian...
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Groups+Workshops
A World on the Brink: Fiction's Reflections of 1924 with Donna Raskin
Four Sessions Fridays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT April 5 to June 28, 2024
In 1924, Adolph Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison and the U.K. recognized the Soviet Union. The Ottoman Empire was abolished and Calvin...