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OLE2328 World Literature: Global Voices
£0.00 / unit
Tess Maginess BA, MA, PhD, PFHEA + panel of experts
Fee £150.00 (concession rate £120.00) - fee will amend when you select the appropriate fee rate below
Autumn 2025
20 weekly sessions on Wednesdays 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm, starting 24 September
In this 20-week course, a panel of experts will join Tess Maginess to celebrate and discuss the poems, plays and stories from across the world and from across history. There will be a lively mix of classic texts and more contemporary literature.
| 24 September | Jane Austen, Persuasion | Tess Maginess |
| 1 October | Vergil's Aeneid, Book 1 'When Aeneas met Dido' | Geraldine O’Neill |
| 8 October | John Donne ‘At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners’ | Tess Maginess |
| 15 October | Alba de Céspedes, The Forbidden Notebook | Eamonn Hughes |
| 22 October | Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries | Linda McKeown |
| 29 October | John Hewitt-Queen’s University public lecture | TBC |
| 5 November | Nella Larsen, Passing | Cathal McManus |
| 12 November | JD Salinger, Catcher in the Rye | Martin Tyrrell |
| 19 November | The Book of Ruth: Wee Story, Big Story | Desi Maxwell, James McKeown and Tess Maginess |
| 26 November | Ciaran Carson, Still Life | Eamonn Hughes |
| 21 January | G B Shaw, Mrs Warren’s Profession | Seamus McKee |
| 28 January | Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women | Tess Maginess |
| 4 February | W B Yeats, ‘The Dreaming of the Bones’ (Will be available in PDF) | Eamonn Hughes |
| 11 February | Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise | Tess Maginess |
| 18 February | Aeneid, Book 2 'The Fall of Troy' | Geraldine O’Neill |
| 25 February | Malcom Bradbury, The History Man | Martin Tyrrell |
| 4 March | Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records | Tess Maginess |
| 11 March | Kent Haruf, Plainsong | Linda McKeown |
| 18 March | Andreï Makine, A Life's Music | Alison MacKenzie |
| 25 March | William Shakespeare, King Lear | Tess Maginess |
Dates and speakers correct at time of going to press.
This class will take place on QUB campus
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