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This year the library's annual literature seminar with Philip Weinstein will be presented as a series of virtual events on Zoom. Professor Weinstein will be discussing the works of Toni Morrison, one of the 20th Century’s most influential novelists and intellectuals, and recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. The class will be reading four novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, The Song of Solomon, and Beloved.
Philip Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Emeritus at Swarthmore College. He has been offering literary seminars in cooperation with the Vineyard Haven Public Library since 2012. His publications include Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination (1971), The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce (1984), Faulkner’s Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (1992), What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (1996), Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction (2005), Becoming Faulkner(2009), and Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage (2015). He is currently working on a book of essays entitled Soul-Error.
In order to allow the library to distribute class materials and communicate with students, participants should register online. Prior to the first class, registered participants will receive a welcome email with Zoom access information and a reading guide.
Dates and reading assignments:
Wednesday, September 16th, 5:30 pm
The Bluest Eye -- Request the book or Checkout the eBook
Reading guide
Wednesday, September 30th, 5:30 pm
Sula -- Request the book or Checkout the eBook
Wednesday, October 14th, 5:30 pm
Song of Solomon, part I -- Request the book or Checkout the eBook
Wednesday, October 28th, 5:30 pm
Song of Solomon, part II
Thursday, November 12th, 5:30 pm
Beloved, part I -- Request the book or Checkout the eBook
Wednesday, December 2nd, 5:30 pm
Beloved, part II
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This year, Professor Weinstein will also be presenting a series on James Joyce's Ulysses with Swarthmore's Lifelong Learning program starting in September. For more information, visit https://www.swarthmore.edu/alumni-resources-events/lifelong-learning-swarthmore
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