World Literature: Global Voices
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Tess Maginess BA, MA, PhD, PFHEA + panel of experts 

Autumn 2024 

20 weekly sessions on Wednesdays 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm, starting 25 September  

In this 20-week course, a panel of experts will join Tess Maginess to celebrate and discuss the poems, plays and stories from across the world and from across history.  There will be a lively mix of classic texts and more contemporary literature. 

25 September - Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds - tutor, Tess Maginess 

2 October -  Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - tutor, Rosie Pelan 

9 October -  F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - tutor,  Martin Tyrrell 

16 October - Lorrie Moore, ‘Which is More Than I can say about Some People.’ In  Birds of America  - tutor, Louise McIvor 

23 October - A brief introduction  to early Irish song - tutor, Moyra Haslett 

30 October -  Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd  - tutor, Eamonn Hughes 

6 November  - Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ode To the West Wind’  - tutor, Tess Maginess 

13 November -  James Baldwin, Another Country - tutor, Linda McKeown 

20 November - Homer, Iliad, Book 1, ‘The Quarrel’  - tutor, Geraldine O’Neill 

27 November - Hewitt Lecture - tutor, Michael Hughes 

22 January -  Véronique Tadjo, 'In The Company of Men': In The Ebola Tales - tutor,  Steven Wilson 

29 January - Paul Lynch, Prophet Song - tutor, Tess Maginess 

5 February - Homer, The Odyssey, 6, 'Nausicaa and Odyseus'  - tutor, Geraldine O’Neill 

12 February - John Steinbeck, East of Eden  - tutor, Linda McKeown 

19 February -  Marianne Moore, ‘Poetry’ - tutor, Tess Maginess 

26 February -  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince - tutor, Martin Tyrrell 

5 March  - Giovanni Montanaro, The Bookseller of Venice (English Translation, Edward Williams)  - tutor, Tess Maginess 

12 March - Willa Cather, ‘A Lost Lady’  - tutor, Louise McIvor 

19 March - Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection  - tutor, Alison MacKenzie 

26 March -  Brian Friel, Translations  - tutor, Seamus McKee 

 Dates and speakers correct at time of going to press

15 CATS Points (Level 1) 

This class will take place on QUB campus 

Concession: The concession rate is available for those who are in receipt of State Benefits (including pension), or are full-time students, part or full-time Queen’s students or are members of University staff holding a valid staff card:

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