Being Human Festival: Engaging with Dystopia: William Golding’s Lord of the Flies from manuscript to book and beyond
Why and how has the novel, Lord of the Flies spoken to readers across the generations?
This workshop will feature this iconic publishing phenomenon in conjunction with unique materials from the Golding Archive held at the University of Exeter’s Heritage Collections.
| A Being Human Fest HUMS lecture | |
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| Date | 23 November 2016 |
| Time | 13:30 to 16:30 |
| Place | Old Library Event enquiries: c.j.faunch@exeter.ac.uk. Booking by previous arrangement with schools. |
| Provider | Being Human Fest HUMS |
Event details
Together with curators and academics from the Centre for Literature and Archives, school children will have the opportunity to engage with processes of adaptation, curation and the transition from manuscript to printed text to explore the novel’s questioning of human nature in a dystopic landscape, a theme that continues to capture the reader’s imagination.
This event is part of the Being Human festival which is led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, Being Human is a national forum for public engagement with humanities research. The festival highlights the ways in which the humanities can inspire and enrich our everyday lives, help us to understand ourselves, our relationships with others, and the challenges we face in a changing world.
For more information please visit the Being Human Festival website
Location:
Old Library
