Course Schedule – Spring 2024 / Literature
The courses listed below, in the general area of literature, are currently offered at Quest.
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ALL THE KING’S MEN
Coordinators: Lynnel Garabedian, Sandy Kessler
Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men is one of American literature’s greatest political novels.
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
Contemporary Poetry explores some of the most heralded and talented poets of the 21st century.
DAISY MILLER & WASHINGTON SQUARE
Coordinators: Patricia Geehr, Susan Keohane
Henry James was a 19th century American writer, a major figure in the history of the novel, and a master craftsman in the development of his recurring themes.
WONDERFUL BOOKS OUT LOUD
Coordinators: Harriet Finkelstein Larry Shapiro, Ruth Ward
O Pioneers! was Willa Cather’s first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier — and the transformation of the people who settled it.