Unless otherwise noted, all discussions take place from 7:00 – 9:00 pm in Special Collections on the Fourth Floor of the Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
June 28
Gustave Flaubert
“A Simple Heart” (1877)
“Dance of Death” (1877)
July 26
C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters (1941)
August 30
Homer
Iliad. The Battle of Paris and Menalaus
September 27
Wilkie Collins
“House to Let” (1858, written with Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter)
“The Ghost in the Cupboard Room” (1859)
October 25
George Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara (1905)
Optional: See the UWM Theatre Department production of Major Barbara in November, directed by Rebecca Holderness, date and venue TBA.
November 29
Marcel Proust
Selection from the first part of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, volume 2 of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past). (1914)
December
Holiday Break
January 31
Anton Chekhov
The Seagull (1895)
Optional: See the UWM Kenilworth 508 production of Aaron Posner’s 2013 adaptation of The Seagull, Stupid Fucking Bird, directed by Jim Tasse, February 28-March 4.
February 28
Caridad Svich
12 Ophelias (2004)
Optional: See the UWM Mainstage performance of 12 Ophelias, directed by Bill Watson, March 7-11.
March 28
Mary Wollstonecraft
Introduction and Chapter 12 of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Hannah More
April 25
John Muir
“Through the Foothills with a Flock of Sheep” and “The Yosemite” from My First Summer in Yosemite (1911)
Aldo Leopold
“The Land Ethic” from A Sand County Almanac (1948)
May 30
Giovanni Boccaccio
The introduction to and all ten stories from the First Day of The Decameron (ca. 1350)