45 min

Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922 Arts & Ideas

    • Society & Culture

Understanding James Joyce's eye troubles gives you a different way of reading his book Ulysses. That's the contention of Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, who shares her research with presenter Shahidha Bari. Emma West has delved into the history of the Arts League of Service travelling theatre, who went about in a battered old van performing plays, songs, ballets and 'absurdities' to audiences from Braintree to Blantyre. And we look at the Royal Society of Literature's annual Dalloway Day discussion of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway, first published in 1925, with Merve Emre.
Merve Emre is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford, and editor of the annotated Mrs Dalloway.
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley is Lecturer in Liberal Arts and English at the University of Bristol and author of James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film.
Emma West is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
Find out more about Dalloway Day 2022 on the Royal Society of Literature website.
The Bloomsday festival runs from June 11th to 16th
You can find a collection of programmes exploring ideas about modernism on the Free Thinking website

Understanding James Joyce's eye troubles gives you a different way of reading his book Ulysses. That's the contention of Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, who shares her research with presenter Shahidha Bari. Emma West has delved into the history of the Arts League of Service travelling theatre, who went about in a battered old van performing plays, songs, ballets and 'absurdities' to audiences from Braintree to Blantyre. And we look at the Royal Society of Literature's annual Dalloway Day discussion of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway, first published in 1925, with Merve Emre.
Merve Emre is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford, and editor of the annotated Mrs Dalloway.
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley is Lecturer in Liberal Arts and English at the University of Bristol and author of James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film.
Emma West is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
Find out more about Dalloway Day 2022 on the Royal Society of Literature website.
The Bloomsday festival runs from June 11th to 16th
You can find a collection of programmes exploring ideas about modernism on the Free Thinking website

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