James Joyce:
Ulysses Discussion Group
The James Joyce
Group is
devoted to the appreciation of the life, works, and significance of the
Irish author (1882-1941). The discussion on Ulysses meets here at the Merc and you may join the close reading of Ulysses already in progress since October 2006.
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led by Walter Blanco
April 30th, May 8th andf May 13th at 6:00pm.
$50 for members and $65 for non-members.
Walter Blanco is Professor of English and Chairman of the English Department of Lehman College, CUNY. Over the years, he has been a Fulbright Professor to Brazil, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris VIII and the Sorbonne. Walter has translated The Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides’s The Peloponnesian War for the Norton Critical Editions series. He has also had a season as a corporate consultant in communication and presentation skills. His clients included Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Deloitte Consulting, the Chase Manhattan Bank, and the National Basketball Association, and his business and academic travels have taken him to over forty countries. He was graduated from Columbia College and earned his Ph.D at Harvard, where he was a Harvard Prize Fellow.
The Fitzgerald translation is preferred but any text will be OK.
Reading/Discussion schedule: The first eight books of the Odyssey during the first meeting, the next eight at the next meeting, and the last eight at the last meeting.
Postcolonial Literature
Led by William Mottolese
