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 great 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 RELIGIONS
Coordinators: Ruth Ward, Bob Gottfried
The course will start with an introduction to the religions of the world.