Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff? Discover your house loyalty this summer with William Flesch in his Young Adult Literature class (ENG 21A).
You will explore the purest form of story-telling and ponder what it means to be a person (human or otherwise). Since this is a summer class, the reading list is flexible and at the beginning of the course students and the instructor will brainstorm a set of readings together.
Book options may include:
- Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Cooper: The Hunger Games
- Stevenson: Kidnapped
- Pullman: The Golden Compass
- Lewis: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Valente: Space Opera
- Lowry: The Giver
Interested in skipping straight to the heart of the narrative? Explore how very short fiction works in William Flesch’s Modern American Short Story class (ENG 180A).
You will be able to propose your preferred reading list and select which short stories you want to explore and examine further this summer. Past picks included writers as different as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Flannery O’Connor, Richard Wright, and Harry Turtledove.
William Flesch is a Professor of English at Brandeis and works on the “nature of literary experience, from Homer through present day movies, and on what an accurate description of literary experience can offer evolutionary psychologists and cognitive theorists.” He has been cited by Newsweek as one of America’s “Great College Professors”: https://www.newsweek.com/four-great-college-professors-78703
Space for this summer is filling up quickly so reserve your spot today!
If you have any questions e-mail us at: summerschool@brandeis.edu.
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