(AGENPARL) – mar 17 settembre 2024 Find Out More About Our Two 6-Week Literature Course Offered In-Person and Online by the James Joyce Centre
Autumn Courses 2024
2 October – 18 December
Every Wednesday, 6-8pm UTC+00:00
The James Joyce Centre is delighted to offer two exciting new courses this autumn: Dear, Dirty Dubliners and Cities in Literature in Music!
Both courses will be held in-person at the James Joyce Centre and via Zoom every Wednesday, 6-8pm UTC+00:00 starting on October 2nd.
The James Joyce Centre is proud to offer Dear, Dirty Dubliners, a course on Joyce’s first masterwork.
Dubliners, Joyce’s debut collection of short stories, is considered one of the finest short story collections ever written, laying bare the intrigues, dirtiness, and indignities of life in Dublin at the turn of the 20^th century. Joyce got at the “heart” of Dublin with penetrating insights into its denizens, using innovative styles and techniques that would come to define the Modernist movement and beyond.
Dear, Dirty Dubliners is a unique six-week course that will guide you through the stories in great detail. The course will be held both in the James Joyce Centre and on Zoom. Particular focus will be paid to issues of gender, poverty, colonialism, nationalism, globalization, the Catholic Church, and sexuality, just to name a few. The course will also go over its troubled publication history as well as its enduring legacy and adaptations, such as John Huston’s 1987 film The Dead.
The course will be led by Dr. Josh Q. Newman, an academic and assistant at the James Joyce Centre. The course will consist of readings, group discussions, presentations, and guest lectures. Students will be provided with contextual and scholarly materials via Moodle. You do not have to be an academic or so familiar with Joyce’s work to enjoy the class!
Course Details
-Location: Zoom & The James Joyce Centre (35 North Great George’s St.)
-Start Date: 2 October 2024
-End Date: 6 November 2024
-Time: Every Wednesday, 6-8pm UTC+00:00
-Registration: €80
We look forward to welcoming you to Dear, Dirty Dubliners!
Artwork by Frank Kiely.
Register Here (https://jamesjoyce.moodlecloud.com/course/view.php?id=14&mc_cid=1e4915eee5&mc_eid=UNIQID)
Join us at the James Joyce Centre where our lifelong learning founder, Dr. Caroline Elbay, presents Cities in Literature and Music.
This six-week course of literary exploration, music and shared talks examines the varied roles that major cities of Dublin, Trieste, London, Paris, Cordoba, and Prague have played in both literary and musical works of different eras and genres.
Together with exploring the concept of ‘the City’ through commentators such as Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities) and Jonathan Raban (Soft City), this course will take readers to Dublin with James Joyce’s bildungsroman, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. A taste of Victorian decadence is guaranteed as readers explore the labyrinthine city of Victorian London through Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray before proceeding to Paris with Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera. A journey to warmer and more sultry climes will transport readers to Cordoba and Prosper Merimee’s novella Carmen. Finally, our winterreise (winter journey) will terminate in the beautiful ‘city of spires’: Franz Kafka’s Prague with The Metamorphosis and Utz by Bruce Chatwin.
Musical explorations of these cities will include works by M.W. Balfe, G.F. Hændel, Thomas Moore, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Giuseppe Verdi, Georges Bizet, Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak (to name but a few).
Course Details
-Location: Zoom & The James Joyce Centre (35 North Great George’s St.)
-Start Date: 13 November 2024
-End Date: 18 December 2024
-Time: Every Wednesday, 6-8pm UTC+00:00
-Registration: €80
We look forward to welcoming you to Cities in Literature and Music!
Register Here (https://jamesjoyce.moodlecloud.com/course/view.php?id=15&mc_cid=1e4915eee5&mc_eid=UNIQID)
Both courses will be recorded and available for view on Moodle through 31 December 2024. Recordings are done with the consent of the attendee in accordance with GDRP.
We hope to see you there!
The James Joyce Centre makes great effort to keep our events free and open to the public. We rely upon public and private donations in order to do so. We would greatly appreciate it if you would consider making a donation.
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The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
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