by Natalie Kopp | Jun 16, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Today, June 16, is the day known to James Joyce fanatics as “Bloomsday.” The literary holiday is named after Leopold Bloom, the main character of Joyce’s one-day novel and masterpiece Ulysses, which takes place on June 16, 1904 (and which, need I remind you, was first...
by Natalie Kopp | Jun 7, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
There is no question that James Joyce played a major role in the 1920s literary scene in Paris. Moving there in 1920, he befriended and harnessed the aid of Sylvia Beach, owner of the now famous Shakespeare and Company bookstore and lending library. Beach took on the...
by Natalie Kopp | May 29, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Who knew that James Joyce’s daughter and Zelda Fitzgerald were trying their hands at dance or that a single ballet such as Le Train Bleu could bring together the choreography, music, dance, writing, fashion, and visual art talents of Nijinsky, Milhaud, Diaghilev,...
