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Apr
23
Paid, Behind the Bookcase Tours, Antiquity, Phillis Wheatley, Public, Maya Angelou, Poetry, In-Person
Behind the Bookcase Tour | The Influence of Antiquity: from Wheatley to Angelou: Ancient Lyric and Comic Poetry, the Self, and the Other | In-Person
Join us in the Rosenbach’s historic library as we begin this series with Phillis Wheatley’s 18th-century publication, Poems on Various Subjects... and discover her use of Latin lyric and comic poetry to construct her literary persona.
Jun
11
Behind the Bookcase Tour | The Influence of Antiquity: James Joyce’s Ulysses: Epic Poetry, Structure, and Wordplay | In-Person
Join us in the Rosenbach’s historic Library as we look at Joyce’s celebrated novel to uncover the impact of ancient epic poetry on the structure of Ulysses. We will then engage in a close examination of a brief section of the novel to learn how Joyce reconstructs ancient poetic wordplay in a tour-de-force of erudition, competition, and Modernist innovation.