The Reading Rooms

What's so Great About Literary Prizes?
Part II:
Howard Jacobson's
The Finkler Question
(Man Booker Prize Winner 2010)

Tuesday November 1, Thursday November 17
and Wednesday November 23 2011
7.30-9.00 pm

What's so Great About Literary Prizes?
Part I:
Philip Roth's
American Pastoral
(Pulitzer PrizeWinner 1998)

8, 15, 27 September & 4 October 2011
7.30-9.00 pm

Short and Sweet Summer Snack:
'Bitesize Borges:
A Taster of Jorge Luis Borges's
Fictions'

Thursday 25 August, 2011
7.30-9.00 pm

Jorge Luis Borges

'Intersections of Literature,
Art and Politics
in A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book'

June - July 2011

Working titles for each session:

1. Aestheticism and New Artistic Trends at the Turn of the Century.
   
   
2. Political Movements and Class Consciousness in Britain and Europe.
   
   
3. Women in Art, Women at Work
   
   
4. The Children's Books: from Idyllic Childhood to Perilous Maturity. Considering the Advent of the Great War as a Metaphor for Adulthood.