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Many literary masterpieces are long and wordy, But reading them can bring surprising benefits, beyond sheer pleasure. Here’s how to tackle the classics.
Debra Adelaide’s new book, When I Am Sixty-Four, is a complex, devastating and often funny love letter to her friend, the late Gabrielle Carey.
Two new memoirs make blind writer Amanda Tink ‘very proud’ of her community – and share the stories of blind writers, performers, teachers, activists and inventors.
The venerated and critically acclaimed Shane MacGowan has died in Dublin at the age of 65.
Gabrielle Carey’s last book, about her beloved James Joyce, also includes her own life as a reader, and makes us see things that hurt and delight her.
Gabrielle Carey was a prolific writer, talented teacher and lifelong James Joyce scholar. Passionate and playful, her work explored how books bind readers together. She made the world richer.
Reading is “sexy”. Maybe it’s because watching someone read exerts a fascination on the beholder, be it St. Ambrose or Marilyn Monroe.
By the standards of the day, Ulysses was extremely sexually explicit.
An ode to his hero Homer? The act of a man losing his sight? What is the story behind the famous Ulysses blue.
New research shows that literary relatives tend to share a similar writing style.
Get past the first 100 pages and you’ll see that Joyce’s style of writing mostly goes against what philosophers understand of the stream of consciousness.
Little is known, but much is speculated, about James Joyce’s daughter and muse, Lucia.
Being misty-eyed about a perfect Christmas past will do you little good.
Around the world today, fans of James Joyce’s Ulysses will celebrate Bloomsday. This experimental novel can be bewildering to read, but for those who persist, it is a ‘feast’ of a book.
The great Irish novelist saw himself as European first, Irish second. There’s a lesson in that for the UK.
The tale of a married woman who joins her lover in Paris, The Beauties and Furies is a modernist classic. Like Joyce’s Ulysses, the action is concentrated in one city, but dreams are nightmarish in this city of night, not light.
Dicken’s great anti-hero has monopolised festive literature for too long. Here are the alternative takes on the season of goodwill that you have been missing.
Olwen Fuoéré’s extraordinary adaptation of Finnegans Wake for the stage brings a work with a reputation for obscurity back into the realm of popular culture.
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Lecturer in Liberal Arts and English, University of Bristol
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PhD candidate, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Author: Reframing A Portrait of the Artist: Joyce and the phenomenological imagination, Western Sydney University
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Challis Professor of English Literature Emerita, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Profesora del Departamento de Lengua Española de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Valladolid
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Professor of English, Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in English, Australian National University
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Lecturer in the Department of English Literature, University of Reading
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UniSA Creative, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, University College Cork
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Professor of Modern Literature, University of East Anglia
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra