Course: Reading James Joyce: Life, Place, Fiction

Joyce was a transnational and multilingual writer. In this video, Dr Boriana Alexandrova explains how this is important to Joyce’s writing. We’ll delve deeper over the coming steps.

What is the role of music in Joyce’s work? J.T. Welsch explains more, with the help of Matthew Campbell… Are there other writers you can think of who bring music …

Almost all of Lucia’s story, as it survives today, has come to us second hand: from letters her father wrote to her throughout the 1930s, between her first public violent …

Who was Lucia Joyce? Watch Dr Boriana Alexandrova explore the life of Lucia in this short video.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Paris was home to many European and American avant-garde and modernist writers. It was an exciting place for artists wanting to attempt new things and …

Joyce loved Paris, and spent much of his time there… but how did it impact his writing? Emilie Morin explains more. Is there anything from the film you would like …

Ulysses’ fascination with low culture, the everyday, the popular, and the disposable is everywhere in the ‘Calypso’ episode, which acts as an overture to this important aspect of the novel’s …

How does James Joyce depict popular culture in Ulysses? In this video, Hannah Roche explains more.

In the National Library, Stephen Dedalus overhears the Irish poet, artist and editor George Russell (known as A.E.) say that ‘Our national epic has yet to be written’. He says …

At first, there seems to be little similarity between Ulysses and Homer’s Odyssey. What could a novel about a day in the life of two men in twentieth-century Dublin have …

In September 1920, Joyce wrote to his Italian friend Carlo Linati that Ulysses is, ‘È l’epopea di due razze (Israele-Ireland) e nel melemino tempo il ciclo cel corpo umano ed …

In the fourth chapter of Ulysses, we meet Leopold Bloom. Bloom has Jewish heritage and, throughout his day, contends with anti-Semitic taunts, jeers, and jokes from a contemptuous and intolerant …

For literary scholars, the presence of the author sometimes poses a problem. We know that all texts have some kind of author, even if that authorship is collaborative or anonymous. …

In this short film, Dr J.T. Welsch talks about Joyce’s use of the autobiographical form. Is there anything from the video that strikes you as novel or new? We’d very …

Here, we welcome back Dr. J.T. Welsch to introduce us to the early forms of James Joyce’s writing. What did you feel was the take-home message from this film? Please …