Seminars
Participants are taught in small seminar groups of up to 12 students, and receive two one-on-one tutorials with their tutor.
Sunday
Seminar 1: Introduction to My Brilliant Friend
Seminar 2: My Brilliant Friend: female friendship and identity formation
Monday
Seminar 3: Introduction to The Story of a New Name
Seminar 4: The Story of a New Name: feminist thought and the representation of female experience and trauma
Tuesday
Seminar 5: Introduction to Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Seminar 6: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Naples and the Italian socio-political context
Wednesday
Seminar 7: Introduction to The Story of the Lost Child
Seminar 8: The Story of the Lost Child: the theme of ‘dissolving margins’
Thursday
Seminar 9: The form of the Neapolitan Novels: genre(s) and poetics
Seminar 10: The narrator of the Neapolitan Novels: memory, truth, and metanarrative
Friday
Seminar 11: The Neapolitan Novels in English translation
Seminar 12: World literature and the global novel
Programme timetable
The daily timetable will normally be as follows:
Saturdays
14.00–16.30 - Registration
16.30–17.00 - Orientation meeting
17.00–17.30 - Classroom orientation for tutor and students
17.30–18.00 - Drinks reception
18.00–20.00 - Welcome dinner
Sundays – Fridays
09.00–10.30 - Seminar
10.30–11.00 - Tea/coffee break
11.00–12.30 - Seminar
12.30–13.30 - Lunch
13.30–18.00 - Afternoons are free for tutorials, individual study, course-related field trips or exploring the many places of interest in and around Oxford.
18.00–19.00 - Dinner (There is a formal gala dinner every Friday to close each week of the programme)
A range of optional social events will be offered throughout the summer school. These are likely to include: a quiz night, visit to historic pubs in Oxford, visit to Christ Church for Evensong and after-dinner talks and discussions.