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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Ibsen's women
Course Date: Sat 2 Mar 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetFocusing on Hedda from Hedda Gabler, Nora from A Doll's House and Mrs. Alving from Ghosts, we will read, view and discuss extracts from Ibsen's plays.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
John Keats: 'The vale of soul making'
Course Date: Sat 2 Mar 2019
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteKeats pursued – vigorously and brilliantly – questions related to ultimate truths. We shall consider a representative selection of his poetry and letters, reflecting on how their creative insights can help illuminate our own experience and aspirations.Full fee: £39.00Senior fee: £31.00Concession: £20.00 -
The fiction of Jeanette Winterson: storytelling, fantasy, humour
Course Date: Sat 16 Mar 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetInventively recasting myth and history, Winterson constructs powerful narratives of female creativity and sexuality. Discuss her literary development in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), The Passion (1987) and The Daylight Gate (2013).Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
Poets of Medieval London: Chaucer, Gower and the urban poetic imagination
Course Date: Sun 24 Mar 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetHow did urban poets write about London in medieval England? From Southwark taverns to significant London landmarks and events, this course considers work by two friends, John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
Understanding poetry
Course Date: Sat 30 Mar 2019
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 -
Five modern poets
Course Date: Mon 29 Apr 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore the work of five giants of modern poetry – from Hardys’ moving reflections on love and loss, through Eliot’s revolutionary modernism, the poems of Larkin and Heaney to Carol Ann Duffy’s wry reflections on modern life.Full fee: £99.00Senior fee: £79.00Concession: £44.00 -
American science fiction and society
Course Date: Tue 30 Apr 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetThis course examines North American literature from the science-fiction genre, written in the 1970s and 80s, that addresses issues of race, gender, violence and power. We will start with Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time and then Sheri S. Tepper’s post-apocalyptic novel, The Gate to Women’s Country.Full fee: £79.00Senior fee: £79.00Concession: £35.00 -
French fictions: found in translation
Course Date: Wed 1 May 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetWe will be looking at a selection of classic French novels in translation, covering a generous span of time from the 1870s to the 1980s. Titles will include Flaubert's Une Vie Simple, Maupassant's Bel-Ami, Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes, Sartre's La Nausee and Duras's L'Amant.Full fee: £169.00Senior fee: £135.00Concession: £74.00 -
Wordsworth: the Prelude -'The growth of a poet's mind'
Course Date: Wed 1 May 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetThe Prelude is Wordsworth’s ultimate testimony, offering a richly varied poetic autobiography. We shall discuss extracts from each of the poem’s 13 books to gain a sense of the complexity and coherence of Wordsworth’s achievement.Full fee: £169.00Senior fee: £135.00Concession: £74.00 -
An introduction to literature: fiction, poetry and drama
Course Date: Thu 2 May 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore themes of deceit, guilt, personal and social responsibility and class, in Ian McEwan's 2001 novel, 'Atonement', and David Hare's 1995 play, 'Skylight'. We will also read a selection of short stories and poetry.Full fee: £139.00Senior fee: £111.00Concession: £61.00 -
Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' with Thomas Middleton's 'Women Beware Women'
Course Date: Fri 3 May 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetMeasure for Measure is a comedy and Women Beware Women a tragedy, but they share a highly satirical and problematic approach to power and sexual relationships, which is characteristic of the Jacobean period to which they belong.Full fee: £169.00Senior fee: £135.00Concession: £74.00 -
Mrs. Dalloway's wanderings
Course Date: Sat 4 May 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetIn a close reading of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway, we will explore how the early Modernists used the vibrancy and decay of the city to expand their vision. Please read the text beforehand to get the most enjoyment out of the course.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00 -
The poetry of Keats: a literary workshop
Course Date: Sun 5 May 2019
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteThis course, led by Nick Field, Build literature tutor and former Keats House Poet in Residence, will give you the chance to read, explore and discuss some of Keats' most significant poetry in the location in which many of them were written. Poems include "The Odes" and "The Eve of St.Agnes".Full fee: £39.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £39.00 -
Drama in society: text to performance
Course Date: Thu 9 May 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetRead, discuss and view two 20th century plays that demonstrate the potency of drama as literary and performance texts with two plays dealing with truth and lies: Ibsen's The Wild Duck and Arthur Miller's All My Sons.Full fee: £109.00Senior fee: £87.00Concession: £48.00 -
Contemporary British playwriting and theatre
Course Date: Sat 11 May 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetFocusing on key works in modern British theatre, we explore developments since the boom in new writing in the 1990’s, the work of major playwrights in context and the significance of new contemporary theatre forms. Writers include Caryl Churchill, Simon Stephens and Jez Butterworth.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £25.00
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