Course
13 November – 18 December 2024
Join us at the James Joyce Centre where our lifelong learning founder, Dr. Caroline Elbay, presents Cities in Literature and Music course this autumn!
Starting on Wednesday, 13 November 2024 at 6pm, 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).
For more information, please contact Caroline at [email protected].
Course Details:
-Location: Zoom & The James Joyce Centre (35 North Great George’s Street)
-Start Date: 13 November 2024
-End Date: 18 December 2024
-Time: Every Wednesday, 6-8pm GMT
-Registration: €80
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. Please email [email protected] for more information.
Spaces are limited so be sure to register soon.
We look forward to welcoming you to Cities of Literature and Music!
The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.