Wuthering Heights in Tel Aviv

An alert from Tel Aviv, Israel:

Revisiting the Classics of English Literature
Lecture Series Sponsored by
The Department of English and American Studies
Tel Aviv University

Encounters with the great works of English literature mark all of us. The engrossment in a Dickens novel, the awe inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost, the laughter at the wry wit of Chaucer, the tremor elicited by the inundating lines of Shelley and Keats, the wonder at the magical worlds
of Shakespearean drama, gorgeous palaces and solemn temples brought to life through the power of words alone …
For over 1500 years, literature in the English language has taught, nurtured, thrilled, outraged and humbled readers, and, no less significantly, provided and challenged them with new ways of understanding an ever-changing world. This first-of-its-kind lecture series offers you a unique opportunity to meet or revisit the impressive literary legacy of Great Britain and America: the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Defoe, Dickens, Austen, Swift, Wordsworth, Woolf,
Henry James, Yeats, Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald … We invite you to experience or re-experience the magic of these grand literary masterpieces and to step beyond their surface
to experience the times and conditions they came from and the diverse issues with which their writers grappled. Our professors will ignite your enthusiasm for the classics in the English language with their knowledge, wit and passion. Experience a reunion with works of literature you have always loved and that have marked some of your precious moments, or discover the magic of texts that have always facinated you from afar.
Join us for the lectures on the text or texts to which you feel a most intimate connection or come
to the entire lecture series to enjoy a lively and thoughtprovoking conversation with the giants of literature in the English language. You need not have read all the texts slated for discussion but will undoubtedly be inspired to do so!
Each meeting will offer a short lecture followed by an informal discussion with the professor and light refreshments. We would be delighted to have you as our guest!

Today, December 30:

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
Dr. Galia Benziman – 30 December, 2009

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