Course: Reading James Joyce: Life, Place, Fiction

Finnegans Wake, like its older, perhaps more famous brother Ulysses, is a text famous for its difficulty. Reading Finnegans Wake can, at first, appear impossible. What are we supposed to …

As discussed in the previous video, the narrative style of Gerty Dowell in the ‘Nausicaa’ episode of Ulysses mimics the potential reading habits of a young woman from Dublin in …

The selection below comes from the eighth chapter of Book One of Finnegans Wake. We will come to Finnegans Wake in the third week of our course. For now, try …

In this short film, Dr Boriana Alexandrova discusses the role of women in Joyce. What strikes you as being worthy of comment having watched the video?

Sadly, our time together is almost at an end… In this short concluding film, Professor Matthew Campbell offers some final thoughts on Joyce and the last few weeks of learning.

Welcome back once more, this time for the third and final week. In this short film, Dr Boriana Alexandrova introduces our key focal points of study as we examine Joyce …

We’re glad you could join us once again! This week, we will be focusing on Ulysses as Professor Matthew Campbell sets out in the short film above. We very much …

Now that introductions and housekeeping activities are out of the way, here is a short film from Dr J.T. Welsch to introduce what we’ll be looking at in the first …

Welcome to the course! In the short film above, Professor Matthew Campbell explains the ground we will look to cover together during this course. Over the next three weeks, we …

In ‘Cyclops’, Joyce memorably brings us to Barney Kiernan’s pub, which is full of lively, drunken comic chat. The richly entertaining dialect of the unnamed, working-class narrative voice in this …

Is Ulysses funny? In this video, Dr Hannah Roche and Dr Bryan Radley explain why they think it is.

In the summer of 1904, the Irish writer, editor, painter and mystic George Russell (his pseudonym was Æ) asked a 22-year-old promising Dublin poet called James Joyce if he could …

Joyce was raised as a Catholic, and his relationship to religion is important to understanding his work. In this video, Professor Matthew Campbell explains more. Having watched the film, is …

Joyce’s fascination with languages has a paper trail all the way back to his teenage years. His earliest surviving piece of writing is a translation of Horace’s Ode III.13, which …

In the passage from the story ‘Two Gallants’ that has been read in the previous talking head film, the narrator shows us two men walking past a harpist – a …