Course Schedule – Fall 2024 / Literature


The courses listed below, in the general area of literature, are currently offered at Quest.

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CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES

Coordinators: Nancy Richardson, Mary Buchwald, Frieda Lipp

This long-running class discusses short stories from all over the world.

CONTEMPORARY POETRY

Coordinators: Ellen Rittberg, Martha Drezin, Mary Ann Donnelly, Frieda Lipp

We will explore important and well-regarded modern poets, their poems, and their place in the literary continuum/historical context.

IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE, CAN IT?

Coordinators: Lynnel Garabedian, Sandy Kessler

In our class this fall we will read and discuss It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.

OLD TESTAMENT AS LITERATURE AND IN THE ARTS

Coordinators: Joyce Hinote, Peter Dichter, Jamie Sykes

The Old Testament is a great religious work but it also contains many wonderful stories that have influenced our literature and fine arts down through the centuries.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY

Coordinators: Pat Geehr, Sheryl Harawitz, Susan Keohane

Embark on a literary journey through the intricate world of Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady.

WONDERFUL BOOKS OUT LOUD

Coordinators: Harriet Finkelstein Larry Shapiro, Ruth Ward

If you would like to read James Joyce, but do not have several lifetimes to get through Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake, come to Wonderful Books Out Loud to read Dubliners and in doing so enjoy the very best prose in the English language.

WORLD OF RELIGION

Coordinators: Ruth Ward, Bob Gottfried

The course will start with an introduction to the religions of the world.