Three Misanthropes Three Misanthropes
This course covers three plays focused on misanthropes: two by Shakespeare that are more tragic in tone (Timon of Athens and Coriolanus) and one comedy by Moliere (The Misanthrope). What makes these...
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves
In this course we’ll read three of Virginia Woolf’s great novels: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves, all published between 1925 and 1931. Woolf is an exquisite prose stylist, psychologist...
What are Islands for, in Novels? What are Islands for, in Novels?
This course covers classic and more recent ‘island novels’ with a view to asking what the island affords the novel. Not what the island means, but rather what kinds of stories the island enables the...
Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White
The “woman in white” of the title is a mysterious young woman in distress whom art teacher Walter Hartright attempts to help. Much like The Moonstone, the story is an early detective novel told by...
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
Intensive Reading Course
A close, intensive reading of (topically) selected sections of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. Topics include: the nature of philosophy, the problem of meaning...
Women of Euripides--Women of Troy: The Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache Women of Euripides--Women of Troy: The Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache
This class will explore three of Euripides' plays which feature major heroines, in this case the heroines of the Trojan side of the Trojan war, all considered with respect to their positions at the...