Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at RIT | Sp25T The Novel that Changed Detective Fiction Forever (In-Person Only)

Sp25T The Novel that Changed Detective Fiction Forever (In-Person Only)

In-Person | Available (Membership Required)

Level

N/A

Date

4/16/2024-6/4/2024

Time

1:30 PM-3:00 PM EDT on Tue

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Course Description

[NEW COURSE] In 1988 an unassuming former crime reporter named Thomas Harris published his third novel, and detective fiction was permanently radicalized by the result. The Silence of the Lambs is part police procedural, part novel-of-education, and part cat-and-mouse chase, but terms like these fail to capture the freshness, the intellectual intensity, and the dynamic power struggle between FBI student Clarice Starling and the murderous psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter. Course participants are encouraged to view The Silence of the Lambs film, directed by Jonathan Demme (1991). Audio/Visual, Discussion, Lecture, Reading

Special Notes

Course Website: https://sites.google.com/view/silence-of-the-lambs-osher-rit/home

Required Text: The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, any edition including electronic

*This registration item is IN-PERSON ONLY; there is not a zoom component to this course.*

Instructor(s)

Lisa Jadwin

Lisa Jadwin, Ph.D. (English, Princeton University), has 35 years of teaching experience, has won teaching awards, and has taught college-level courses on detective fiction for more than two decades. She is a retired professor from St. John Fisher University.