Literature Courses in London
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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Literature taster
Course Date: Sat 14 Sep 2019 (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: £19.00Senior fee: £19.00Concession: £10.00 -
Proust Vol 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Course Date: Mon 16 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetProust’s masterpiece comes to life with supportive resources and invigorated discussion. Through close reading of the second volume, we are immersed in the life of this most introspective narrator in the modernist classic.Full fee: £219.00Senior fee: £175.00Concession: £96.00 -
Modern Irish and British drama
Course Date: Mon 16 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetRead and discuss some key drama texts from the last 50 years in terms of theme, character, language and as performance texts. Plays studied will include 'Betrayal' by Harold Pinter, Top Girls by Caryl Churchill and Translations by Brian Friel.Full fee: £179.00Senior fee: £143.00Concession: £79.00 -
Ways into advanced literary study
Course Date: Mon 16 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetFrom Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson, from Charles Dickens to Ibsen, Henry James and Virginia Wolf, 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 a higher level of study. Includes three Saturdays.Full fee: £439.00Senior fee: £439.00Concession: £220.00 -
Visiting London theatre today
Course Date: Tue 17 Sep 2019
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
24 September, 8 October, 29 October and12 and 26 November. No class on 22 October.Full fee: £329.00Senior fee: £329.00Concession: £223.00 -
Contemporary American writing by women
Course Date: Wed 18 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetThe American canon is dominated by white, male writers. In this course, we seek to rectify this by exploring the work of women from all backgrounds working across disciplines. Authors include Joan Didion, Alice Walker, Amy Tan and Siri Hustvedt.Full fee: £219.00Senior fee: £175.00Concession: £96.00 -
Fiction narratives: how symbols reach our deepest feelings
Course Date: Wed 18 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetWhat makes some stories more memorable than others so that, once we’ve read them, we never forget them? We explore how some stories are more powerful and memorable than others because they use symbols which reach directly to our deepest desires and fears.Full fee: £219.00Senior fee: £175.00Concession: £96.00 -
British literature 1900-1950: travellers' tales
Course Date: Wed 18 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetDiscover the ways in which British writers such as Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf and Christopher Isherwood used ‘travellers’ tales’ to explore themes of identity, history, creativity and transgression in the first half of the twentieth century.Full fee: £159.00Senior fee: £159.00Concession: £70.00 -
Myths and classics retold: from Jean Rhys to Colm Toibin
Course Date: Wed 18 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetWe will read reworkings of canonical myths and classics including Colm Toibin's House of Names (the Oresteia), Christa Wolf's Cassandra, Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (The Iliad), John Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius (Hamlet) and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (Jane Eyre).Full fee: £179.00Senior fee: £143.00Concession: £79.00 -
19th century American literature
Course Date: Thu 19 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetThis class explores 19th century American literature, from slave narratives to the works of the American Renaissance, reading classic texts to broaden knowledge of literary history through a range of influential stories, poems and novels. Among the writers considered will be Irving, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, and Twain.Full fee: £179.00Senior fee: £143.00Concession: £79.00 -
An introduction to literature: drama
Course Date: Thu 19 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetYou will read, discuss and view extracts from three plays: Hamlet by Shakespeare, The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett in terms of theme, character, language and how they work as performance texts.Full fee: £219.00Senior fee: £175.00Concession: £96.00 -
Shakespeare the controversialist
Course Date: Fri 20 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetShakespeare’s plays continue to stimulate intense debate. This course offers the opportunity to consider and compare four which have proved especially contentious. Through close reading we shall see how Shakespeare’s art still challenges our assumption.Full fee: £389.00Senior fee: £311.00Concession: £171.00 -
London lowlife in fiction
Course Date: Fri 20 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetWe will explore the themes of poverty, politics, gender and ethnicity in London at the end of the 19th century/start of the 20th century through the eyes of writers of fiction, but also through the testimony of their non-fiction contemporaries – social investigators, government officials, journalists and philanthropists.Full fee: £149.00Senior fee: £119.00Concession: £66.00 -
Get together and read
Course Date: Thu 26 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetEnjoy talking with other people about the things you have read? Want to share great stories, poems and drama? Come along and join the conversation. The group is led by a shared reading practitioner trained by The Reader Organisation.Full fee: £0.00Senior fee: £0.00Concession: £0.00 -
East goes West: Pamuk and Kundera
Course Date: Thu 26 Sep 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetWhat can the visionary journeys of two of the most celebrated and controversial figures in World Literature teach us about the experience of living on the edge, geographically and culturally, of the European continent at the end of the 20th century and today?Full fee: £179.00Senior fee: £143.00Concession: £79.00
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