Literature
We offer a wide range of literature courses at Build. From contemporary & classical literature, and novels to short stories, as well as our popular reading groups, you will find a course to suit your literary needs.
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The fiction of Raymond Carver
Course Date: Tue 17 Jul 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore some of the stories of Raymond Carver to discover how, as the Guardian stated, ‘with or without minimalist editing, the humanity of Raymond Carver's storytelling puts him in the same league as Chekhov.’.Full fee: £39.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £17.00 -
The Queen of Calvary: Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Stevie Smith
Course Date: Thu 19 Jul 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore these poets’ originality, including their distinctive humour, which marked out their emotional and stylistic space in a poetry world dominated by men; with two brilliant young British women poets who have learned from them.Full fee: £59.00Senior fee: £59.00Concession: £26.00 -
Understanding poetry
Course Date: Thu 19 Jul 2018 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetFrom Shakespeare and Milton to Ezra Pound and Frank O'Hara, what makes different types of poetry tick, and how can we gain the confidence to read them perceptively and with real enjoyment?Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £22.00 -
English poetry in the age of Napoleon
Course Date: Thu 26 Jul 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetThe hopes and fears of this revolutionary era were reflected in the poetry of the leading Romantics, including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Shelley. We shall consider – in context – a representative selection of their work.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £22.00 -
Divided city: Berlin in Cold War fiction
Course Date: Tue 31 Jul 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetCome and discover how the Wall and other atmospheric Berlin locations distilled Cold War tensions in le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), Deighton’s Funeral in Berlin (1964), and Fleming’s The Living Daylights (1966).Full fee: £69.00Senior fee: £69.00Concession: £30.00 -
The pentangle on the shield: King Arthur in medieval literature
Course Date: Sat 4 Aug 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetThe legend of King Arthur and his knights is one of the great European literary traditions. This course considers the development of the legend in medieval literature, from the earliest allusions to the 15th century.Full fee: £89.00Senior fee: £71.00Concession: £45.00 -
Shakespeare: a dip into some key tragedies, comedies and histories
Course Date: Mon 6 Aug 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetCelebrate the genius of Shakespeare: his timeless themes, complex characterisation, beautiful language and power in performance. Explore extracts from plays including 'Hamlet', 'Othello, Richard III', 'Twelfth Night' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.Full fee: £129.00Senior fee: £103.00Concession: £57.00 -
Literature taster
Course Date: Sat 8 Sep 2018 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetDo you want to find out how to go about understanding a poem or how to do a close reading of a work of fiction? Come and join us to discover what makes a literature class at Build so special.Full fee: £15.00Senior fee: £15.00Concession: £15.00 -
Contemporary British and Irish drama
Course Date: Mon 17 Sep 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetWe will read and discuss key plays written and performed this century, including those written by Mike Bartlett,
Caryl Churchill, Jezz Butterworth, Nina Raine, Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson and David Hare.Full fee: £169.00Senior fee: £135.00Concession: £74.00 -
An introduction to literature: poetry and prose
Course Date: Mon 17 Sep 2018 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetDiscover the basic tools and techniques used to analyse literature in a friendly and supportive environment. You will
read and discuss a wide range of poetry and short stories; in addition we will study novellas by Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and F. Scott Fitzgerald.Full fee: £179.00Senior fee: £179.00Concession: £79.00 -
Diving into Faulkner: 'The Sound and the Fury' to 'Absalom, Absalom!'
Course Date: Mon 17 Sep 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetIn three of Faulkner’s complex and connected novels, we will examine how narration probes the cracked surfaces of human relationships. The guided, text-based discussion will provide tools towards understanding Faulkner’s complex vision.Full fee: £189.00Senior fee: £151.00Concession: £83.00 -
The world's great short stories
Course Date: Tue 18 Sep 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore some of the best short stories of the modern age – from the great realists such as Chekhov and Joyce, Raymond Carver and Alice Munro to the fantastical, often unsettling work of Kafka and Borges.Full fee: £189.00Senior fee: £151.00Concession: £83.00 -
Visiting London theatre today
Course Date: Tue 18 Sep 2018 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetSee a play every other week, mostly off West End and fringe theatre. You will explore the playwright's work beforehand and analyse and discuss the production afterwards. Fee includes a contribution towards theatre tickets. The first session is at Build. If you miss this session please contact Humanities on 020 7492 2652. Visits on 25 September, 9 October, 23 October and 13 and 27 November. No class on 30 October.Full fee: £319.00Senior fee: £319.00Concession: £213.00 -
Make it New! How poetry became modern
Course Date: Wed 19 Sep 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetWe look at how and why poetry changed between 1890 and 1925, breaking with the traditional forms and language of the past thousand years to become modern in style, ideas and feelings.Full fee: £199.00Senior fee: £159.00Concession: £88.00 -
Ways into advanced literary study
Course Date: Wed 19 Sep 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetFrom Shakespeare to Mary Shelley, from Romantic poetry to Ibsen to Virginia Woolf, this course will enhance your appreciation of literary genres and styles from different periods, developing the rigour and skills of reading and writing that belong to higher level study. Includes three Saturdays.Full fee: £429.00Senior fee: £429.00Concession: £215.00