Course Details

Brilliant Minds

 

LITR1-CE9305 / $450
SPRING 2012
Continuing Education: Humanities and Performing Arts

Literary genius takes innumerable shapes and forms. From books to plays to poetry, brilliant minds use their gifts to entertain, inspire, engage, and enlighten us about philosophical and artistic concerns, social trappings, and human conceit. Readings in this course include Homer, The Iliad, trans. Fagles (Penguin); Sappho, Poems, trans. Barnstone (Shambhala); Euripides, The Bacchae, trans. Williams (Farrar); Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, trans. Coghill (Penguin); Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ed. Crewe (Pelican); Austen, Mansfield Park, ed. Sutherland (Penguin); Whitman, Leaves of Grass, ed. Hollander (Library of America); Synge, Playboy of the Western World (Dover); Forster, A Passage to India, ed. Stallybrass (Penguin); White, Voss (Penguin). Pleas read The Iliad for the first class.

No grades issued.

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Related Subject Areas: Philosophy, Literature, Humanities

 

 

 

Section 1

 

Tuesday 10:00am-11:40am
February 14 - May 1

Tuesday 10:00am-11:40am
May 8

No class 3/13

12 Sessions

Instructor: Peter Arcese  
Location: Midtown Center

 

 

Section 2

 

Wednesday 6:45pm-8:25pm
February 8 - May 2

No class Mar. 14

12 Sessions

Instructor: Peter Arcese  
Location: Washington Square