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Reading Faulkner with Michael Gorra

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • $35
  • Online Classroom, New York, NY
  • 1 hour

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  • $35
  • Online Classroom @ Online Classroom, New York, NY 00000
  • 1 hour
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What you'll learn in this literature class:

This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program.

 If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you.

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An uncompromising modernist, a great chronicler of the American South, an inspiration and also an immovable obstacle for the generations of writers who followed: the Mississippi-born William Faulkner stands as one of the greatest, and one of the most problematic, figures in all of American literature.

He was a white man of his time and place who did not always rise above it; and yet his work also provides a burning account of the intersection of race, region, and remembrance, a probing analysis of a past that we have never yet put behind us.

These classes offer an initial approach to his enormous oeuvre. The first session, “How to Read a Faulkner Sentence,” shows how to make sense of his famously difficult style, with its long sentences, deep dives into consciousness and sudden switches from one moment in his characters’ lives to another. The second session, “Inventing Yoknapatawpha: The Town and the Families,” looks at the imaginary county in which he set almost all his work and will also consider the real-life models behind that work. Finally, “The Sound and the Fury and the Landscape of Memory” will examine his most famous novel in terms of recent debates about the difficult process of facing the past.

Students must read “Barn Burning,” “A Rose for Emily,” “Dry September” and “That Evening Sun” in Faulkner’s Collected Stories for the second session; The Sound and the Fury for the third. Gorra’s The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War

School Notes:

Online programs:
An access link will be emailed to you after purchase.

Refund Policy

In the event that some or all of the meetings of the program cannot happen in person, programs will be held at the scheduled time in a virtual format via a video conferencing platform. The programs will continue through hands-on, at-home activities, lectures, presentations, and/or group discussions. No refunds will be issued should any portion of a course be held virtually.

We are not responsible for providing makeup classes or issuing refunds for programs missed as a result of illness, emergencies or other events beyond our control.

There are no refunds for outings, classes or workshops that meet fewer than three times per semester.

If you are unable to attend, you may contact [email protected] prior to the first date for a receipt that enables you to claim your contribution as a tax-deductible gift.

Unless otherwise noted in program description, the following schedule applies to programs which meet three times or more per semester:

  • To receive a 95% refund, written request must be received 14 business days prior to the first session.
  • To receive a 75% refund, written request must be received at least 2 business days prior to the first session.
  • To receive a 50% refund, written request must be received at least 2 business days prior to the second session.
  • After that, refunds cannot be granted.

All refund requests must be submitted in writing to [email protected]

Refunds are computed from the date written notice is received. To receive a refund, you must enclose the original of your confirmation letter.

Please allow three to four weeks for processing of your refund request.

Processing fees, membership fees, auditions fees and class or exercise cards are not refundable. No cash refunds.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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