The Canterbury Tales
Join us for an exciting 10-week excursion into one of the touchstones of English literature. With their depiction of English life in the fourteenth century, their verve, humour and poetry, Chaucer's tales continue to enchant us in the twenty-first century. We will explore The Prologue, The Knight's Tale, and The Wife of Bath's Tale, amongst others.
Location: North Rooms, William Street, Herne Bay
Date: Thursday 20th January 2011, 10am to 12noon
Literature and Kent
We will study a selection of superb novels and poems in which Kent is extensively featured. From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Great Expectation by Charles Dickens, from Austen, to Nicola Barker's Darkmans, Kent has a rich and varied literary history.
Location: Wingham Village Hall, Kent CT31BD
Date: Wednesday 12th January 2011, 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Reading List:
Selections from, Great Expectations, and The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell, Darkmans by Nicola Barker, and others.
(As we will be dealing with various texts, Frank will arrange handouts of the specific text to be studied)
1920s American Fiction
This 10-week course explores the moral, thematic and stylistic concerns of the American novel in the 1920s. Focussing on three classic novels of the period - The Age of Innocence, The Sun Also Rises, and The Great Gatsby - we will examine issues of modernism and naturalism in American literature, as well as social questions regarding class, identity and the American Dream.
Location: North Rooms, William Street, Herne Bay
Date: Tuesday 3rd May 2011, 10am to 12noon
Tel: 01227-265870 or email mail@frankjfoley.com