F25-21 - Flaubert and Ibsen
Class | Registration opens 9/2/2025 9:00 AM
A close reading of Madame Bovary and two of Ibsen's plays featuring a trio of multifaceted and complex women in Emma Bovary, Hedda Gabler, and Nora Helmer. Translations are very important so please use the Signet Classic of Madame Bovary translated by Mildred Marmur and another Signet Classic, Ibsen: Four Major Plays, Volume One, translated by Rolf Fjelde. Start reading Madame Bovary for class one!
Jim Rhodes
Jim Rhodes PhD graduated from Holy Cross College as a philosophy major and earned his PhD from Fordham University specializing in Medieval Literature and the works of James Joyce. He taught for many years in the English Department at Southern Connecticut State University and is the author of the book Poetry Does Theology: Chaucer, Grosseteste, and the Pearl Poet.