Vineyard Haven Public Library: "Uncanny Voyages" With Phil Weinstein Begins January 26th

Press release from the Vineyard Haven Public Library:

January 4, 2022

Philip Weinstein, the Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Emeritus at Swarthmore College, will present  a seven-part seminar "Uncanny Voyages," that will center on writers who explore extreme situations. According to Professor Weinstein, "in these readings we enter spaces where common sense collapses. Kafka prized those books “that affect us like a disaster...like being banished into forests far from everyone... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within.” To travel with such texts is to encounter the bracing shock of uncanny voyages."Hosted on Zoom by Lifelong Learning Swarthmore and Vineyard Haven Public Library, the class will take place every two weeks on Wednesdays from 7:00-8:30 pm, January 26th - April 20th, 2022. Zoom login will be sent to registered library participants prior to the first session on January 26th. To register through the library, visit https://bit.ly/3mCbudsClass dates and reading selections appear below. 7pm Wednesday January 26, 2022Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling7pm Wednesday February 9, 2022Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground7pm Wednesday February 23, 2022Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals7pm Wednesday March 9, 2022Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents & Essay, "The Uncanny"7pm Wednesday March 23, 2022William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying7pm Wednesday April 6, 2022Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis, & Stories (selections to be announced)7pm Wednesday April 20, 2022Flannery O'Connor, Stories (selections to be announced)

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