This course will explore the richness and depth of this remarkable text, with close consideration of the work’s language, action, characterization, worldview, and more.
Kermit Roosevelt explores the America the Founders designed, and the America that came to be, through documents and books in the Rosenbach’s American history collection.
To read James Joyce’s masterpiece together and have fun doing it, with freewheeling discussion, amusing and brief digressions, penetrating insights, mind-opening questions, and occasional singing.
The first three stories of Dubliners were published in a newspaper, and the author was identified as “Stephen Dedalus.” What would it mean to regard these stories as written by Stephen, the character based on James Joyce’s younger self?
Join us in commemorating the 80th anniversary of Jorge Luis Borges’s groundbreaking work, Fictions (1944-2024). Explore the profound impact of Borges, a towering figure in 20th century literature, whose works revolutionized modern fiction and scientific thought.
In this two-session course, travel behind the scenes into the collections of Girard College and the Rosenbach to study rare books, manuscripts, and artworks, and become acquainted with this complex, forgotten Founding Father.
In this course, which welcomes first-time Melville readers and Moby-Dick obsessives alike, our discussions will range from the novel’s most thunderous, epic heights to its quirkiest, crudest jokes.
We’ll consider how Dracula highlights the fears and anxieties of the culture that produced it and discover how this vampire story is just as much about themes of difference and otherness, race and ethnicity, and sexuality and gender, issues still relevant for contemporary readers.