Focusing on excerpts from In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway, One of Ours by Willa Cather (who was connected with the Cos Cob art colony as a patron of the Holley Boarding House) and The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell, Professor Laura Winters will talk about the impact that the destruction and suffering wrought by WWI had on themes, process and style in American literature and poetry.
Dr. Laura Winters has taught literature, writing and film for 31 years at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, New Jersey, and has taught for over 20 years in the graduate school at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. She has published Willa Cather: Landscape and Exile as well as articles about American literature and film, and is the editor of the Willa Cather Series at FDU (Fairleigh Dickinson University) Press. Winters, who lectured here last year on Willa Cather, is an accessible and engaging speaker with a deep understanding of her subject matter. We look forward to her return visit.
Vanderbilt Education Center
Members: $10; nonmembers: $15
Ticket includes free admission to Greenwich Faces the Great War in the Storehouse Gallery.
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