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ORIGINS OF THE WESTERN LITERARY TRADITION (PVSC Fall 2024 6-week Hybrid Course) • Register • View Cart •

Origins of the Western Literary Tradition -  6-week Hybrid  course with recordings
Fridays 10:00 -12:00 Sept. 27, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25, Nov. 1
Held at UMA-Bangor Campus Lewiston Hall Room 119
Minimum 10, Maximum 25, In-Person Maximum 15

 Enheduanna (Retzlaff)  Enheduanna affixed her name to the oldest (to date) literature in the Western canon. She wrote The Daughter of Sargon of Agade, the Conqueror of Sume, as well as the first “signed” poems that exist. Enheduanna was named high priestess of ancient Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (Genesis’ Eden).
We will look at how these ancient materials influenced some of the most influential literature of Western civilization and introduced our most ancient motifs, such as the Great Flood, the Tower of Babel, the Garden of Eden, and the Serpent in the Garden.
 
 
 In-Person class is limited to 15 participants. However, we can accommodate up to 10 additional members who attend on Zoom. On the mailed registration form, please list if you will attend: In-person only, or Zoom only, or if you will attend either way. Classes will be recorded.
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Instructor: KAY RETZLAFF
Kay Retzlaff, Professor of English, University of Maine at Augusta, has taught dozens of Senior College classes over the past twenty years. At UMA she teaches classes in eighteenth- nineteenth-century American, Native American, Myth and Fantasy, Origins of the Western Literary Tradition, and Irish-American literatures. She has published four books, Ireland: Its Myths and Legends; Women of Mythology; Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770-1870: Bridget’s Belfast; and Duet, a book of poetry with artist Susan Camp.

Two of Kay Retzlaff’s previous courses for PVSC were: “Poe in the Time of Corona” (Fall 2020), and “Is this a Private Fight?: Irish Writers in a Postcolonial World” (Winter 2023). We welcome back our wonderful instructor.

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ORIGINS of the WESTERN LITERARY TRADITION 
N/A N/A F  09/27/2024 - 11/01/2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UMA-B Lewiston Hall 		$35.00 Fee
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