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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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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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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Becoming a Creative Writer
<p>Whether it’s fiction or creative non-fiction, a personal essay, memoir or a whodunnit mystery, everyone has a story to tell and the capacity to do so with personal flair and style. It is just a
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The Shakespeare Chronicles
<p>Some of us may have come to Shakespeare just recently. Still, it’s never too late to look at what is so special about him, by embarking on a wonderful journey from Stratford-upon-Avon to London to
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<p>Some of us may have come to Shakespeare just recently. Still, it’s never too late to look at what is so special about him, by embarking on a wonderful journey from Stratford-upon-Avon to London to
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Learn the Art of Formal Debating
<p>Formal debating has a lot of important skills and techniques that we can use in our day-to-day life to help structure our thinking and the way we see the world and how we interact with those around
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