Online: Explore Literature with Dr. Mark Schenker: Their Eyes Were Watching God

 Mark Schenker will present a series of lectures this fall on novels that engage the themes of curiosity and exploration.

Dr. Schenker, formerly of Yale College and a frequent lecturer at the Ridgefield Library, began with Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021), Anthony Doerr’s, inventive and wide-ranging tale that spans Western civilization from Ancient Greece through 15th-century Constantinople to the present-day US, and into the 22nd century.

Turning from the public sphere, Mark will now discuss the personal self-discovery of Janie Crawford, the protagonist of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). Janie, an African-American woman in 1930’s Florida, confronts and shapes her destiny through three marriages and a trial for murder. 

This program is part of the Library's scholarly series, The Curious Mind: Exploration and Discovery, and is made possible by the generosity of the Friends of the Ridgefield Library.

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