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This course will explore the way different texts have been adapted from page to screen. We will look at a variety of original sources, from classic novels and plays to more recent texts, examining the mechanisms by which one form is adapted into another.
Have you ever wondered why people study poetry? Have you ever read a poem and thought, 'Is there a way I should be reading this?' Have you ever been intimidated by poetry? If the answer is 'yes' to any of these questions, then this course is for you.
This weekend explores the building blocks of storytelling: inspiration; character; plot; setting; structure; description and editing. Join us in Oxford for a fun, interactive course and develop your unique writer's voice. No previous experience necessary.
Short enough to write in a single day, flash fiction is an agile, innovative form that brings character, mood and language to the forefront. This online workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced writers.
Assessing the disparate, fascinating protagonists of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park to explore her wit, satire, and complex treatment of contemporary ideals of femininity.
This lecture will introduce the Brontë sisters and Jane Eyre, exploring its style, themes, key passages, and debates around Rochester, narration, the supernatural, and the novel’s controversial dedication to Thackeray.
This lecture series will explore the lives and works of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë, examining how their remarkable imaginations produced six original, complex, and ground-breaking novels despite their confined lives.
This lecture will explore Villette, examining Lucy Snowe’s unusual character, Brontë’s use of defamiliarization and withholding, the spectral nun, and the novel’s ambiguous and unexpected ending.
This lecture will examine Shirley, exploring its contrasting heroines and heroes, Brontë’s treatment of gender roles, and the novel’s claim to be an early industrial novel.
This lecture will explore Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey, examining its place among Victorian governess novels, its portrayal of women’s economic vulnerability, and the distinctive style that has led critics to reassess Anne Brontë’s literary reputation.
This lecture will explore The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, examining Anne Brontë’s experimental narrative structure, its portrayal of abuse and female independence, Gilbert as hero, and the novel’s possible response to Wuthering Heights.
Short enough to write in a single day, flash fiction is an agile, innovative form that brings character, mood and language to the forefront. This online workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced writers.
