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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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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This is the story of an elderly lady who was afflicted with a very delicate conscience… Continue reading
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A new introductory class on Ulysses offered by Bloomsday in Melbourne Inc. Continue reading
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 the opening of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Continue reading
A new course focussing on the Ithaca chapter of Ulysses, Joyce’s own favourite. Continue reading
Bloomsday in Melbourne mounts a course, one day’s immersion in James Joyce’s most Irish chapter of Ulysses, Cyclops. Continue reading
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
Kuch has succeeded in opening Ulysses a little further, and, in giving us another option to consider in the fictional future of the Blooms, offered us another opportunity to read Joyce’s magnificent book once more anew. Continue reading
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