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(AGENPARL) – ven 01 novembre 2024 In-Person 👨🏫, Online 💻, and Recorded 🎥. Starts on November 13th. Don’t miss out!
Cities in Literature and Music
📍 Online & The James Joyce Centre
📅 13 November – 18 December 2024
🕕 Every Wednesday, 6-8pm Irish Standard Time
🎫 €80
🎥 Classes will be recorded
There are just a few places left to join our Cities in Literature and Music course led by Dr. Caroline Elbay! Our first class starts on Wednesday, November 13th at 6pm. It will be held online and in-person at the James Joyce Centre every Wednesday, 6-8pm IST. Classes will be recorded.
This six-week course of literary exploration, music and shared talks examines the varied roles that major cities of Dublin, Trieste, London, Paris, Cordoba, and Prague have played in both literary and musical works of different eras and genres.
Together with exploring the concept of ‘The City’ through commentators such as Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities) and Jonathan Raban (Soft City), this course will take readers to Dublin with James Joyce’s bildungsroman, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. A taste of Victorian decadence is guaranteed as readers explore the labyrinthine city of Victorian London through Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray before proceeding to Paris with Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera. A journey to warmer and more sultry climes will transport readers to Cordoba and Prosper Merimee’s novella Carmen. Finally, our winterreise (winter journey) will terminate in the beautiful ‘city of spires’: Franz Kafka’s Prague with The Metamorphosis and Utz by Bruce Chatwin.
Musical explorations of these cities will include works by M.W. Balfe, G.F. Hændel, Thomas Moore, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Giuseppe Verdi, Georges Bizet, Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak (to name but a few).
Each session will be recorded and available for view on Moodle through 31 December 2024. Recordings are done with the consent of the attendee in accordance with GDRP. If you do not wish to be recorded, you may still enjoy the class but your video and microphone will be disabled.
There is still time to register but seats are limited. Click the button below to register.
We hope to see you there!
Register Here (https://jamesjoyce.moodlecloud.com/course/view.php?id=15&mc_cid=15212b404c&mc_eid=UNIQID)
The James Joyce Centre makes great effort to keep our events free and open to the public. We rely upon public and private donations in order to do so. We would greatly appreciate it if you would consider making a donation.
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The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
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