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Public Lecture with Professor Alan Lelchuk
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Location: 715, Ingkarni Wardli Building
Why do we read works of literature? This public lecture with award-winning writers, Professor Alan Lelchuk (Dartmouth College), will focus on the special importance of reading great works of literature in our digital age. Professor Lelchuk will discuss the power and pleasures of reading serious works of literature, be they short stories, novels or poetry, and their subsequent aesthetic and moral rewards. It is through such habits of reading that the inner life of the individual can be cultivated and preserved in all its richness.
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Masterclass on Saul Bellow with Alan Lelchuk
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: Room 618, Napier Building, The University of Adelaide
This masterclass will focus on how the writing of Saul Bellow profoundly changed the course of American literature, ending the long influence of Hemingway with his macho heroes and spare writing style, and replacing it with a more complex protagonist. The class will include detailed examination of the stylistics techniques used in Augie March and will explore the way this led to a more open cannon and future for American literature.
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