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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Heaven and Hell and the Whole Damn Thing - An Introduction to Dante
<p>What Shakespeare did for English, Dante Alighieri did for Italian literature and language. Meshing his own life and exile with the universal human journey through life and the afterlife, using
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ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence
<p>What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is like having a conversation with a computer, but instead of talking to a human, you're talking to a special program that's really good at understanding and generating
...ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence
<p>What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is like having a conversation with a computer, but instead of talking to a human, you're talking to a special program that's really good at understanding and generating
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Simone de Beauvoir - An Eclectic 'Big-picture' Writer and Thinker
<p>De Beauvoir is a world-famous author – one of the Big eclectic thinker-writers of the mid-late 20th century – with an enormous output. Slowly her novels are being recognised as philosophical works
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Winter Haiku at Barangaroo
<p>The haiku form was developed by Basho in seventeenth-century Japan and has spread round the world. Haiku writing is a way to deepen perception of the nature around us. It is meditative and
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Family, Friends, and Frankenstein
<p>On 11 March 1818, “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus” was published. The book itself is the mother of science fiction, but the mother of the book was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wife of
...Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Family, Friends, and Frankenstein
<p>On 11 March 1818, “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus” was published. The book itself is the mother of science fiction, but the mother of the book was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wife of
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Writing Creatively Within Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction
<p>Over the course of one four-hour session, students will discover and explore how to produce an engaging narrative within two of the most popular genres of creative writing: fiction and creative
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