by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
August Wilson left as his legacy a ten-play cycle that documents each decade of the 20th century in terms of the African American experience. In his plays Wilson adeptly explores key historical moments in the so-called “American Century.” The course begins with Gem of...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Hemingway is one of the great American writers of the Twentieth Century, famous for his innovative prose style as well as his insights into the human condition. A problem arises in any study of Hemingway because the popular myths surrounding him too often obscure the...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online Many of Shakespeare’s most powerful, intelligent, and subversive characters are female. How were such vividly complex roles constructed in a culture that legally defined women as property, on the grounds of their intellectual and moral...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Sherlock Holmes never actually uttered the words, “Elementary, my dear Watson!” but this and other iconic traces of the detective have lasted for over a century. There have been more than 60 film adaptations of Holmes, including versions in which he is...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online! See Below for full details about our new Hybrid courses This course centers on the recent, brilliant film 1917 as a touchstone for discussing the literature, film, music, and painting of World War I. Sam Mendez’s movie was nominated for ten...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online! See Below for full details about our new Hybrid courses In this course we will dive into classic works of science fiction, from the origins of the genre in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells to the “golden age” masters Clarke,...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online! See Below for full details about our new Hybrid courses We will study four Jane Austen novels and the reasons for their perennial appeal. Austen combines the patterns of romance—where the principal couple surmounts obstacles separating them...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online This seminar will explore the enduring relevance of Shakespeare’s drama, extending from love to politics, to human fate. To mark the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, we shall study six of the plays in their genres: comedy,...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
NEW! HSP Deep Dive Seminar Humans use language not just to communicate information but also to indicate identity, that is, the “self versus other” or “us versus them” distinction. Judges 12:6 describes how the pronunciation of the Hebrew word shibboleth was used by...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online Madame Bovary and The Portrait of a Lady invite discussion and comparison. Each centers on a remarkable heroine who dares to seek independence even at the risk of violating social norms. The plots conform to the pattern of the standard...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
This seminar will compare Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited and its cinematic adaptation in the 1981 BBC television series with the same title. Both works recount some twenty years in the life of the gifted, central character and narrator Charles...
