THE LEARNING CURVE Spring 2012
Art History, Archaeology, Astronomy, History, Literature, Philosophy, Music

Literary Road Trip: Around the World in 8 Weeks

Join Dr. Bill Fry and other armchair travelers as our great authors lead us around the world in just eight weeks.  We’ll begin our literary tour in England with Virginia Woolf, followed by Charles Baudelaire in France and then Heinrich Heine in Germany.  After next visiting Giovanni Boccaccio in Italy, we’ll leave for Russia where we’ll be met by Alexsandr Pushkin and then we’re off to Japan with Yukio Mishima.  In Nigeria, Chinua Achebe will teach us about civil peace in his country. Finally, we’ll tour South America with Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Columbia and Pablo Neruda in Chile. Come aboard and experience the true international flavor of some of the world’s greatest works of literature.

Week 1: England – Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929)
Week 2: France – Charles Baudelaire’s Fleurs de Mal [Flowers of Evil] (1857)
Week 3: Germany – Heinrich Heine’s Buch der Lieder [The Book Of Songs] (1927)
Week 4: Italy – Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (1313-1375)
Week 5: Russia – Aleksander Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades (1834)
Week 6:  Japan – Yukio Mishima’s Fountains in the Rain (1963)
Week 7: Nigeria – Chinua Achebe’s Civil Peace (1971)
Week 8: Columbia – Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1972); and Chile – Pablo Neruda’s Poems from Canto General (1950)

Tucson Session:
When: Wednesdays, Jan 18 – Mar 7, 9:30-11:30am
Where: The Hampton Inn, 5950 N. Oracle Road
Cost: $155 (8 sessions, includes reading packet)

Oro Valley Session:
When: Fridays, Jan 20 – Mar 9, 9:30-11:30am
Where: Resurrection Lutheran Church, 11575 N. 1st Ave.
Cost: $155 (8 sessions, includes reading packet)

Instructor: William A. Fry, Ph.D., a founding member of the Learning Curve faculty, taught literature and writing at a Maryland college for more than thirty years. He served as Chair of the Literature Department and developed a series of literary travel-study tours, both domestic and international.  This award-winning instructor and scholar was named Outstanding Professor for the State of Maryland in 1987, Professor of the Year in 1990 and recently received the 2010 Juliana Yoder Friend of the Humanities Award from the Arizona Humanities Council.

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