Epic "Alice in Wonderland" Extravaganza!
Alvin Kibel
Thu Jan 21, 09am-09:00pm, See description
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
We will take on the task of reading and performing in one extraordinary day the entirety of Lewis Carroll’s multi-logical two-book, twenty-four chapter saga “Alice in Wonderland”--a young girl's heroic journey across a chess-board and through a deck of cards! Throughout this traveling road-show, no chapter will be excerpted, no anecdote overlooked, no joke omitted, no pun intended. Listeners and volunteer readers will be welcome to come and go as they please, as we wend our way across appropriate spaces at MIT to share this masterpiece of English Literature with new audiences and old friends. Unlike other such Alice-fests, traditional in the yawning gap of recess at academic institutions across the English-speaking world, ours is peripatetic and invites multimedia collaborations!
See the website for schedule.
Web: http://lit.mit.edu
Contact: Jamie Graham, 14N-407, x8-5629, jamiecg@mit.edu
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Pleasures of Poetry
David Thorburn
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Reading and discussion of memorable poems led by Literature Section faculty and other MIT colleagues.
A packet containing all of the poems in the series is available from the Literature Office, 14N-407 and at http://lit.mit.edu.
Web: http://lit.mit.edu/
Contact: Jamie Graham, 14N-407, x8-5629, jamiecg@mit.edu
John Keats
Noel Jackson
Ode on Melancholy
Mon Jan 4, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Czeslaw Milosz
Stephen Tapscott
Campo del Fiori
A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
Tue Jan 5, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Julia Ward Howe
Wyn Kelley
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
John Brown's Body
Wed Jan 6, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Wei Yingwu, Wei Zhuang
Alexander Wei
Wei Yingwu
Lamenting My Loss
Seeing Off My Daughter to the Yangs
Wei Zhuang
Thousands of Knots at Heart
Thu Jan 7, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
John Donne
Howard Eiland
The Sun Rising
A Valediction of Weeping
Fri Jan 8, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
TBA
Mary Fuller
Mon Jan 11, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley
Tue Jan 12, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Louise Gluck, Adrienne Rich
Joel Burges
Louise Gluck
The Wild Iris
Adrienne Rich
From an Atlas of the Difficult World
Wed Jan 13, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Omar Khayyam
Mark Hessler
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Thu Jan 14, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
TBA
James Buzard
Fri Jan 15, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Anne Hudson
God's Grandeur
Pied Beauty
Tue Jan 19, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Seamus Heaney
John Hildebidle
Personal Helicon
From Clearances 3
Follower
Wed Jan 20, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Rainer Maria Rilke
Zach Bos
Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes
Thu Jan 21, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Arthur Bahr
Whoso List to Hunt
They Flee from Me
Fri Jan 22, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Alexander Pope
Alvin Kibel
An Essay on Man, epistle I
Mon Jan 25, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Matthew Arnold, Daljit Nagra
Kate Gyllensvard
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach
Daljit Nagra
Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Journey
My Father’s Dream of Return
Tue Jan 26, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Derek Walcott
Nora K. Delaney
Selections from Omeros
Wed Jan 27, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
E. E. Cummings
Gene Moore
Come Nothing to My Comparable Soul
Thu Jan 28, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Linda Gregg
Nadia Colburn
We Manage Most When We Manage Small
There She Is
Whole and Without Blessing
Growing Up
Fri Jan 29, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
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The Red Tent Project
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley
Tue, Thu, Jan 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28, 06-09:00pm, TBA
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 07-Jan-2010
Limited to 18 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Must read "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant by start of class
This page-to-stage project will give voice to the characters and songs of Anita Diamant's bestselling novel. The class will also explore women in the Bible, the Midrash as literature, and the worlds of men and women in pre-Biblical history and contemporary society. Class will conclude with a stage reading of a script developed during the class. Also offered for credit: 21L.994 for letter grade and 21L.995 for Pass/Fail.
Web: https://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/red-tent/
Contact: Jamie Graham, 14N-407, x8-5629, jamiecg@mit.edu
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