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- Webinars
Writer, Rebel, Poseur, Fraud: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and His Influence on the Arts, Education, and Revolutionary Politics (Previously Recorded Webinar)
- $15.00
- (Note: This is a recording of a previously live webinar. To access the recorded video afterwards, log in to your House of Humane Letters account, click "Dashboard," then "Orders," then click the corresponding order. There will be a link that says "View Recording.") The modern mind and imagination have been altered and influenced by few characters so profoundly as by…
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- Conferences
2023 Literary Life Conference
- $42.00
- SHAKESPEARE: The Bard for All and For All Time Join us April 12th-15th! The genius and lasting influence of William Shakespeare is undisputed. However, many of us seeking to redeem our educations sometime struggle to jump in. We need help knowing how to read and understand Shakespeare and how to articulate why we should be reading him and why we…
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- Webinars
Two Modern Poets: Eliot, Auden, and the Age of Anxiety (Previously Recorded Webinar)
- $15.00
- A Webinar by Thomas Banks and Michael Williams The 20th century was an era in which poetry gradually became less and less culturally visible. Among the last exemplars of the craft who were truly public figures of international reputation were an American who became an Englishman, and an Englishman who became an American. T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden were each the master…
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- Mini-Classes
How to Read Beowulf (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)
- $99.00
- When confronted with a very old work of literature, the modern reader struggles for several reasons. The biggest obstacle is that the shared literary, cultural, and imaginative traditions of the work have long since passed from our memories, and as a result, we simply do not understand the imaginative context (i.e. the imaginative language) the work is written in. Sadly,…
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- Webinars
King Henry VIII and the Beginnings of Modern England (Previously Recorded Webinar)
- $15.00
- King Henry the Eighth, the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty, has been credited both by admirers and enemies with having brought to an end the old England of the late middle ages and ushering in the new England of early modern times. On November 17th, Thomas Banks will talk about King Henry's life, wars, marriages, innovations in church and state, and the…
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- Mini-Classes, Streaming Video
How to Read “The Taming of the Shrew” (Previously Recorded Mini-Class)
- $99.00
- The Taming of the Shrew may be Shakespeare’s most misunderstood play! Angelina Stanford will lead you through Elizabethan Cosmology, the form of the play, the tradition of the taming of the shrew stock plot, the sources of the play, and much more so that you too can read the play as the original audience understood it. Discover how this play…
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