Literature and Writing Courses
Develop your understanding of literature and the power of writing.
Engage with literature, storytelling, and written expression across different forms and styles. Strengthen your ability to analyse texts, develop ideas, and communicate effectively through writing.
Cross-Cultural Literature 3
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Cross-Cultural Literature 3
<p>For readers who love both fiction and cultural exploration, this course offers a rich way to combine the two. Through short stories and novellas by respected authors, mostly from the 20th century,
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Agatha Christie, Queen of Crime: The Story Behind the Legend
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Agatha Christie, Queen of Crime: The Story Behind the Legend
<p>Go beyond the bestseller reputation to discover Agatha Christie as a writer, traveller and fascinating public figure. This course explores her life, loves, challenges and working methods, offering
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The Odyssey: An enduring story, a new film, a new translation
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The Odyssey: An enduring story, a new film, a new translation
<p>In an examination of Homer’s Odyssey we unravel questions about the flawed hero Odysseus, the epic’s “author” and the cultural contexts and modes of the story’s telling and transmission over the
...The Odyssey: An enduring story, a new film, a new translation
<p>In an examination of Homer’s Odyssey we unravel questions about the flawed hero Odysseus, the epic’s “author” and the cultural contexts and modes of the story’s telling and transmission over the
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The Shahnameh: Persia's Great Epic
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The Shahnameh: Persia's Great Epic
<p>The Shahnameh is one of the great epics of world literature, yet it remains far less known in the English-speaking world than it deserves. Written to celebrate and preserve Persian culture at a
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Cutting to the Chase: Beauvoir in Five Easy Pieces
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Cutting to the Chase: Beauvoir in Five Easy Pieces
<p>Simone de Beauvoir wrote on an immense scale, so this two-hour talk-seminar offers a focused way in. Through five accessible themes, you’ll explore key ideas from her life and work without getting
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Italian Classics: Boccaccio, Basile and Straparola
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Italian Classics: Boccaccio, Basile and Straparola
<p>Boccaccio, Basile and Straparola created some of the most influential works in Italian literary history. This course explores The Decameron, The Tale of Tales and Pleasant Nights, showing how these
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The Secret Sex Lives of Older Women
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The Secret Sex Lives of Older Women
<p>A warm, insightful, and often humorous exploration of how women from the “Beatles generation” have experienced love, intimacy, and identity across their lives.</p>
<p>Drawing on personal experience
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Literary Hoaxes in the Post-Truth Era
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King Arthur: Origins and Interpretation
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Beginner's Middle Egyptian
