Arts & Entertainment
After the World Broke in Two
'WWI and the Fracturing of Poetry and Fiction,' a lecture by Professor Laura Winters at Greenwich Historical Society.
Professor Laura Winters will talk on Thursday, January 15, about the impact that the destruction and suffering wrought by WWI had on themes, process and style in American literature and poetry. Her focus will be 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.
Dr. Laura Winters, who lectured at the Historical Society last year on Willa Cather, is an accessible and engaging speaker with a deep understanding of her subject. She has taught literature, writing and film for 32 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 she is the editor of the Willa Cather Series at FDU (Fairleigh Dickinson University) Press.
Thursday, January 15, 2015, 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Greenwich Historical Society, Vanderbilt Education Center
39 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, CT 06807
Members: $10; nonmembers: $15
Ticket includes free admission to Greenwich Faces the Great War, the current exhibition in the Storehouse Gallery.
For tickets visit www.greenwichhistory.org or call 203-869-6899, Ext 10.
