Literature Lecture Series makes the classics easier to grasp

Marion Cultural Alliance and Marion County Literacy Council have partnered together to return the popular series “10 Things You’ve Always Wanted – But Felt Too Intimidated – to Read.”


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Posted March 4, 2024 | By Chris D'Avanzo
chris@magnoliamediaco.com

Running from March 4th to March 23rd, this discussion and lecture series will cover some of classic literature’s most challenging and thought-provoking works. Famous classic writing from the libraries of William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Plato, and William Shakespeare, just to name a few, will get a contemporary redress as their core concepts are broken down and examined.

This lecture series will be presented by R.J. Jenkins from the Marion County Literacy Council at the Brick City Center from the Arts. At evening events, legal age attendees will be served complimentary Prosecco.

Event Dates:

March 4th at 5:30 PM
Ulysses

March 5th at 9:30 AM
Tender Buttons

March 6th at 12 PM
Dante’s Inferno

March 7th at 6:00 PM
The Sound and the Fury

March 14th at 5:30 PM
On the Genealogy of Morals

March 16th at 11:00 AM
Shakespeare’s Sonnets

March 19th at 9:30 AM
Plato’s Cave Allegory

March 20th at 5:30 PM
Mrs. Dalloway

March 21st at 12 PM
The Wasteland

March 23rd at 10 AM
Discipline and Punish

Interested readers can visit mcaocala.org/2024/02/23/10-things-youve-always-wanted-but-felt-too-intimidated-to-read to RSVP for free.

 

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