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Magic
From the mysterious Green Knight picking up
his own just-chopped-off head at the start of the
medieval romance
Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight,
to narrator Saleem Sinai’s enormous
ever-dripping telepathic nose in Salman
Rushdie’s 1981 novel
Midnight’s children,
magical beliefs and practices have been
depicted and discussed in literature in English
from the Middle Ages to the present day. Some
writers have even thought of their own writing
as a form of magic or become practising
magicians: for instance, W.B. Yeats was for
many years a member of the Hermetic Order of
the Golden Dawn. This lecture series will
examine the role of magic in the work and lives
of various writers through the ages.
Course co-ordinator
Tom Walker, Assistant Professor
How to apply
Apply to: The Secretary (Evening Lectures),
Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, 21
Westland Row, Trinity College, Dublin 2. Phone:
01 896 2885, email:
. Application
forms will be on our website (from 30 November
2012):
Fee
The cost for the full series will be
€
50 or
€
6 for
individual lectures. Concession rate for the full
series will be
€
35 or
€
5 for individual lectures.
Date, time and place
Lectures will take place on Tuesday evenings of
Hilary term at 7.30 p.m., from 15 January 2013
to 12 March 2013, in the Davis Theatre, Arts
Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
Milestones in the History of
Russian Culture
Against the backdrop of Russian history, this
lecture course offers an overview of major
developments in Russian literature, music, film,
painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre
(including opera and ballet), crafts and
costumes.
Spanning the history of Russian culture from its
roots to the present day, the course is divided
into two semesters. The first looks at the culture
of pre-revolutionary Russia (from the icons of
Kievan Rus’ through the times of Ivan the
Terrible and Peter the Great to the ‘golden age’
of the nineteenth century), while the second
covers the culture of Soviet and post-Soviet
Russia from the October Revolution to the
present (the avant-garde of the 20s, Stalinist
social realism, ‘the thaw’ under Khruschev, the
culture of ‘glasnost’ and contemporary Russia).
This multimedia course is intended for a wide
audience with a general interest in Russian
culture. The class consists of a one and a half
hour lecture per week. Lectures are delivered in
English by staff of Trinity College Dublin and
special guest lecturers.
This course will normally run if there is a
minimum of fifteen students enrolled.
How to apply
Application forms are available from the
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
either in hard copy or electronic form
. The
completed application form accompanied by
payment in the form of a personal cheque,
postal money order or bank draft, payable to
Trinity College no. 1 account should be returned
to: The Executive Officer, Department of
Russian and Slavonic Studies, room 5045, Arts
Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. Phone:
01 896 1896, email: