Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2024
The Rainbow (1915) by D.H. Lawrence, a Modernist Family Saga D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow (1915) chronicles three generations of an English Midlands family, the Brangwens, taking them from the Victorian age through changes in economic and belief systems to the modern era. The novel culminates in the saga of granddaughter Ursula Brangwen, a brilliant young woman who challenges convention of education, family, and English identity. Melding modernist innovation with the traditional narrative pleasures of the family, The Rainbow is an enjoyable and stimulating read. 2 Sessions, starting Thursday, June 20 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12628 • $60
Franz Kafka's Short Stories Franz Kafka, a German Jew living in the Czech capital of Prague, was one of the most ambitious and experimental short story writers of the modern era. Combining surreal, speculative philosophical dreaming and dark humor with a sharp awareness of the ravages of the totalitarian century, he continues to be at the core of innovative literary practice. Class will read "A Country Doctor," "A Hunger Artist," "The Hunter Gracchus," "In The Penal Colony," "Before the Law," "Josephine the Singer," and "The Metamorphosis." Please use the Schocken translation. 3 Sessions, starting Thursday, July 11 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12567 • $90
Book Discussion: Wuthering Heights Ever since its publication in 1847, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights has shocked and enthralled, bewildered and enchanted readers in equal measure. Take a deep dive into one of the most compelling, enigmatic, and influential novels of all time: a story of passion and obsession, doomed love, innocence and experience, class and social tensions, ghosts and haunting, jealousy and revenge, the power of nature and the natural world. Consider its unreliable narration, its indebtedness to the Gothic tradition and Romanticism, its status as a Victorian novel, and its continuing presence in culture today. Recommended book edition to be listed in the near future. PRISCILLA GILMAN is a former professor of English literature at Yale University and Vassar College and the author of two acclaimed memoirs, The Anti-Romantic Child (Harper 2011) and The Critic’s Daughter (Norton 2023), a best book of 2023 for the Washington Post and a New York Times’ Book Critics’ Favorite Book of 2023. She teaches literature classes for Yale Alumni College, leads book groups, and is a sought-after speaker about literature, education, and the arts. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, Slate, the Daily Beast, MORE, Redbook, and Real Simple. 3 Sessions, starting Tuesday, June 11 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Zoom • Course 12621 • $150
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