Literature and Writing
Discover beauty in poetry, passion in drama and thought-provoking ideas in novels. Be stirred by the poets Milton, Whitman and Wright; be moved by the dramatists Shakespeare, Miller and Hugo and be inspired by authors Kafka, Dostoyevsky and Marques. Read and imagine, then imagine and write. Let your inner voice speak out guided in one of our exceptional writing classes. Immerse yourself in the glory of literature.
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Lunchtime Shakespeare - Serving Up One Character Each Week
<p>Sup and sip with a famous Shakespearian character each week – what makes them tick and what are their famous last words? Delve into the character’s motivations and actions through one or more of
...Lunchtime Shakespeare - Serving Up One Character Each Week
<p>Sup and sip with a famous Shakespearian character each week – what makes them tick and what are their famous last words? Delve into the character’s motivations and actions through one or more of
...Available Classes
This is Who We Are - Australian Novels 1900-1939
<p>The novels that were written in the early 20th century matched the vigour and freshness of earlier fiction with greater skill resulting in many books that have held their place as memorable
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This is Who We Are - Australian Novels 1900-1939
<p>The novels that were written in the early 20th century matched the vigour and freshness of earlier fiction with greater skill resulting in many books that have held their place as memorable
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Russian Culture through Cinema
<p>This course is for those who have a special interest in Soviet and Russian cinema and cultures. It offers an introduction to Russian culture through film from the 1950s up to the present. The
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Dante's Inferno
<p>“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” are the most famous words from Canto III of Dante Alighieri’s great poem, La Divina Commedia. In the thirty-four cantos of the first book, Inferno, we shall
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Homer's Odyssey - an enduring story and a new English translation
<p>In our close reading of Homer's <em>Odyssey</em> we shall unravel questions about the story of the hero Odysseus, myth and history, the epic's "author" and the cultural contexts and modes of the
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Writers Workshop - Pointers with Simone de Beauvoir
<p>Simone de Beauvoir was one of the ‘Big thinkers’ and major French authors for 40 years of the mid-20th century. Writing was her lifelong passion and vocation to her death in 1986. She wrote her
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Wandering Through Oceania: Australian Travel-Adventure Authors of the 1930s
<p>With titles like <em>Try Anything Once</em>, <em>Rolling Down the Lachlan</em> and <em>To the Isles of Spice</em>, Frank Clune wrote books that appealed to Australian ‘armchair’ adventurers. In
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The Longest Journey: Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
<p>Dostoyevsky's <em>Crime and Punishment</em> is a compelling, totally unforgettable study of courage, freedom, consequentialism, justice, happiness, love and forgiveness. We examine its key ideas
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How Writings of the Ancient World survived to the Present Day
<p>In this course we examine the efforts of 15th century renaissance scholars to find and return to prominence key texts of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. These texts, which had been preserved
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This is Who We Are - Australian Novels 1940-1959
<p>Not surprisingly the novels written from the time of the Second World War were increasingly willing to grapple with the harsher realities of Australian life, and the writers themselves were more
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This is Who We Are - Australian Novels 1940-1959
<p>Not surprisingly the novels written from the time of the Second World War were increasingly willing to grapple with the harsher realities of Australian life, and the writers themselves were more
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