(AGENPARL) – mar 10 gennaio 2023 Ulysses For All 2023
Spring / Summer Course 2023
Join our global readership and guest speakers at the James Joyce Centre this spring with Ulysses 101: Past, Present, & Future, led by Dubliner and Joycean Dr. Caroline Elbay.
Start Date: 1/2/2023
End Date: 7/6/2023
Time: Every Wednesday, 6-8pm GMT
Fee: €140
To critics who found the book unreadable and/or obscene, Joyce simply replied “If Ulysses isn’t fit to be read, then life isn’t fit to be lived”.
This year’s course, Ulysses 101: Past, Present, & Future, will celebrate and consider the continued relevance of the novel in our times. Much has transpired since the first publication of Ulysses in 1922.
Written against the bloody backdrop of World War I, subsequent global conflicts, including the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine, once again prompt readers to question ‘What is a Nation?’, as posed in the Cyclops episode. The onset, response to, and repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic echo somewhat the Spanish flu pandemic of the previous century referred to by Joyce in Hades. In an increasingly globalised world where migration, transnationalism, and the emergence of nation states (and nationalism) are an everyday reality, any investigation of the novel is ultimately an investigation of both individual and social identity (along with all its attendant concerns and prejudices) in a world where ‘foreignness’ has become an intimate and everyday reality.
These are just some of the many aspects that make Ulysses perhaps even more relevant today than when it was originally written.
Our guest speakers include Terence Killeen, Anne Fogarty, Flicka Small, Pat Callan, Frank O’Rourke, Terry Fagan, John McCourt, and Jonathan Goldman.
Places are limited so early booking is advised.
We look forward to welcoming you to Ulysses 101: Past, Present, & Future!
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