A novelist, a bolshevik, and a dadaist walked into a bar, is one way of getting the joke that is Travesties. Or it’s a demonstration of how The Importance of Being Earnest is a Marxist tract. Continue reading
Filed under James Joyce …
It might be nonsense, but at least it’s clever nonsense
A novelist, a bolshevik, and a dadaist walked into a bar, is one way of getting the joke that is Travesties. Continue reading
Bloomsday in Brisbane
Readings, music, Irish literature more generally, and eating and drinking – Bloomsday at the Queensland Irish Association in Brisbane. Continue reading
Brilliantly Inventive Stoppard Play for Bloomsday
Screwball eggheads tear up the Library in ‘Travesties’, Tom Stoppard’s brilliant comedy about Joyce, Lenin and Tzara. Continue reading
New Joyce Course
A new course focussing on the Ithaca chapter of Ulysses, Joyce’s own favourite. Continue reading
A Day with a Chapter of Ulysses
Bloomsday in Melbourne mounts a course, one day’s immersion in James Joyce’s most Irish chapter of Ulysses, Cyclops. Continue reading
Slow Reading of ‘Ulysses’ in Brisbane
Reading Ulysses slowly and in a community. Continue reading
James Joyce’s Ulysses – Taking The Next Step
at the end of the day you WILL feel inspired to explore this wonderful book further… that’s a promise!
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A Feast of Clarification
In Holy Cow!, pathos was blended with comedic bombast, prolixity with wordless groans, and irony with genuine feeling. The ending was incredibly moving, reminding us of Joyce the man and the writer. Continue reading
Behind the Scenes at Bloomsday in Melbourne
While the setting and the craic is unmistakably Dublin, the literary tour embraces some Irish writers (Swift, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan) but mostly lashes out at English classics – the revenge of a supremely gifted Irish writer on English letters. Continue reading
