Circe is an episode written as a playscript, even if a playscript gone troppo.Hallucination is its own reality. Continue reading
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Time Gentlemen, Please: Is James Joyce dead?
Straight and dead he may be, but Joyce was from the race of the colonised, not the coloniser; of the oppressed class; not of ‘English’ literature, any more than Swift, Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Heaney. Continue reading
On the Good Ship Ulysses
We parked the car, grabbed our backpacks, and made our way up the passenger stairwell. In my backpack was James Joyce’s Ulysses, bookmarked at the final chapter, ‘Penelope’, which I planned to finish reading whilst on board the Ulysses, travelling to Dublin to visit iconic landmarks mentioned in the book. How meta. Continue reading
How to become a Joycean
In the aftermath of Bloomsday, why not promise yourself to have it read by June 2024? Best tips for those who want to make Ulysses their own. Continue reading
Raucous, Rambunctious and Riotous
The cast of Love’s Old Sweet Songs was led by the magnificent and maleficent MC, who, in true music hall style got us all wound up and raring to go for the opening of the show musical eisteddfod – a turning point / ‘tuning fork’ in the road in Joyce’s life. Continue reading
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Filming Ulysses
Gilsenan’s poetic method involves matching lines with a private visual vocabulary, rather like treating the novel as ‘found poetry’ pi Continue reading
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The Cleansing of Molly Bloom
This is the story of an elderly lady who was afflicted with a very delicate conscience… Continue reading
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Extra class on Breaking into Ulysses
A new introductory class on Ulysses offered by Bloomsday in Melbourne Inc. Continue reading
Catching the Spirit of These Strange Times
Ulysses’ ‘interiorization’ is one reason why the book is considered to be unfilmable. Ulysses in Plaguetime deals with this problem by having Dedalus and Bloom speak directly to the viewer in Proteus and Lotus Eaters, as if in video diaries. Continue reading
Diving deep into Joyce at the Martello Tower
Diving deep into the opening of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Continue reading
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