"The Remains of the Day": Literature and Film

Name: "The Remains of the Day": Literature and Film
Start: 2024-09-05T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-09-05T16:00:00-05:00
Location: "The Remains of the Day": Literature and Film

Taught by Steven J. Venturino

Weekly on Thursdays, Sep 05–Sep 26, 2024

2:00pm–4:00pm

4 sessions, $225 ($202 for Newberry members, seniors, and students)

Online

“It has been my privilege to see the best of England over the years, sir, within these very walls.”

A butler hands a gentleman a newspaper, illustration from The Correct Servant: Handbook for Masters and Their Servants, Paul Parey Verlag, Berlin 1900. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Class Description

Dive into a three-part reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s masterpiece of emotional and historical memory, The Remains of the Day, followed by a discussion of the heartbreakingly beautiful 1993 film adaptation directed by James Ivory. Together, the novel and film offer a timely meditation on lost opportunities—personal, political, and moral.

Steven J. Venturino, PhD, the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, has led classes at the Newberry since 2015 and is a former Adjunct Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago.

All virtual classes are recorded and made available on a password-protected basis to participants registered in the class. These recordings are available for up to two weeks after the class ends.

Materials List

Required

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day. Vintage (1993). ISBN 9780679731726.
Dir. James Ivory, The Remains of the Day. Columbia Pictures (1993). Available on DVD or streaming at Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Google Play, and Showtime.
Other Instructor-Distributed Materials

First Reading

For the first session, please read only the Prologue through “Day One, Evening: Salisbury” (pages 3-44).

Cost and Registration

4 Sessions, $225 ($202 for Newberry members, seniors, and students). Learn about becoming a member.

We now offer our classes at three different price options: Regular ($225), Community Supported ($215), and Sponsor ($235). Following the models of other institutions, we want to ensure that our classes are accessible to a wider audience while continuing to support our instructors. You may choose the price that best fits your situation when registering through Learning Stream.

To register multiple people for this class, please go through the course calendar in Learning Stream, our registration platform. When you select the course and register, you’ll be prompted to add another registrant.

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