Master's in Creative Writing

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  • MSt tutor Sarah Bakewell’s new book “At the Existentialist Cafe” to be published on 3rd March

    MSt tutor Sarah Bakewell’s new book At the Existentialist Cafe is to be published by Chatto & Windus on 3rd March, 2016.

    “Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, “You can make philosophy out of this cocktail! …”

    Read more about the book at
    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1089993/at-the-existentialist-cafe/

    In a related event, Sarah and Nigel Warburton will be talking about “Philosophy in the Bookshop” at  Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford on Saturday 19 March, at 11.00 am

    http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/stores/oxford-bookshop/events/

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  • MSt tutor Belinda Jack lecture on Ibsen’s The Doll’s House, London, 26 Jan 2016

    MSt tutor, Belinda Jack, who is Gresham Professor of Rhetoric, will be giving a lecture at the Museum of London on “Theatre and Individualism: Henrik Ibsen, ‘A Doll’s House’”

    Tuesday, 26 January 2016
    6:00pm
     Museum of London
    Entry open to all, no reservation required
    “A Doll’s House is a three-act play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Its first performance was at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, in Denmark, on 21 December 1879. It is often considered to be a feminist play as Nora, the heroine, leaves her husband and children intent on self-discovery. Ibsen, on the other hand, denied any conscious attempt to provide propaganda for the women’s rights movement and claimed that his concern was for the description of humanity. If the play is about the need to find the self and to live true to that self, then what is the nature of individualism that the play promotes?”
    For more information, see the Gresham House  website.
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  • MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse to tour US cities with her novel

    With the support of Dutch Culture USA and her publisher, Unnamed Press, MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse is to tour several US cities.

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  • Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Professor Michael Schmidt, 3rd March 2016

    “Wilfully stopping his ears:  the writing of The Novel: A Biography“

    MSchmidtProfessor Michael Schmidt

    Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
    62 Banbury Road
    5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm

    All are welcome and no bookings are necessary

    Michael Schmidt must have known that The Novel: a Biography was a project doomed to fail. Yet he started his fourteen year odyssey, sceptical of theory, alert to the various pleasures of reading – and writing. The Daily Beast called the book ‘a delightful tale… that reminds is of exactly why we read’. In the New York Times John Sutherland said, ‘What vindicates Schmidt’s willful stopping of his ears to the irrelevant chatter of academic scholarship is that he himself reads so intelligently and writes so pungently… a herculean literary labor, carried off with swashbuckling style and critical aggression.’

    Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947. He studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. His most ambitious prose books are Lives of the Poets, The First Poets and The Novel: a biography. A poet and novelist himself, he founded and runs Carcanet Press and PN Review. Until recently he was a professor at Glasgow and Cambridge.

    Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

    http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/CW

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