Mondays, March 2-March 23
from 6:30-8:30 p.m. (four sessions)
Guide: Christopher Lord
Seminar participants will receive one complimentary admission to the production of a new adaptation of Forster’s novel by Caroline Hewitt as part of Portland Center Stage’s 2019-2020 season.
The questions raised in Forster’s fourth novel have inspired award-winning film, television, and stage adaptations. Who will triumph in the battle for Howards End—both a house and England itself—the intellectual class-conscious Schlegel sisters; the bourgeois capitalist/industrialist Wilcox family; or the upstart Leonard Bast, trying to read his way out of the “abyss” of his lower-class life? This four-week Delve will focus on Forster’s use of symbolism and allusion, lyrical figurative language, and his keen observations of British life in this early 20th century literary masterpiece.
READING LIST:
Howards End by E.M. Forster
SEMINAR GUIDE:
Christopher Lord is the author of the Dickens Junction mystery series, has led several Delve seminars on Dickens and detective fiction, and is a past recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship.
Delve Access Program
We want Delve seminars to be accessible to everyone, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. We are happy to offer an Access Program which provides reduced tuition to qualifying participants. Our Access Program offers Delve seminar registrations at a sliding scale amount of $45-$100 per registration.Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you would like to take a Delve at the Access Rate.
