Heroic Tales Class Coming Up!

Thursday February 21^st, 7-8 PM at Small Town Coffee, I will kick off my Heroic Tales class. This will be a hum-dinger of a roller-coaster ride through some wild genres of story-telling. We will use the seminal works of a genre as a spring-board, and look at how their structure was imitated by a host of later works, creating the genre as we have it now. Students will each write an essay or a story related to one of the genres we discuss. I will co-edit it with them to bring it to a finished form.

After this basic training in literary reading, any time we see a work in that genre we will recognize it as a genre work, and know more or less what to expect. Then we become active readers, observing and enjoying how this particular work follows the genre pattern, and how it violates or alters the pattern in surprising ways.

Come join us at this feast for the heart, mind and soul! You’ll walk away with a story or essay in hand, and a head full of knowledge about the amazing forms taken by the Heroic Journey in literature and in life. There will be a sign-up sheet in the Blue House bookstore at Small Town Coffee in the Kapa’a Fairgrounds. Students will pay $80 (cash or check) at the end of the first meeting if they want to go on with the whole set of 8 meetings. Contact me if you want to reserve a seat by prepaying (mahopmi@gmail, or come by Small Town Coffee Saturday 10-2 when I work in the bookstore).