LEADER
Wendy O’Brien is a philosopher and teacher. With over 30 years’ experience teaching in post-secondary education, she’s given talks and led seminars on creativity, beauty, and wonder at Humber College, Oxford University, Harvard, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Women’s Art Association, Classical Pursuits, and The International Festival of Authors. She recently retired from academe to focus her attention on The Wonder Project, a long-term investigation into the concept of wonder and its relation to artistic excellence, natural beauty, and scientific discoveries.
BOOK
Dubliners by James Joyce
Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, 2014)
ISBN-13: 978-0143107453
Let’s do some “armchair travel”. We will turn to Joyce’s Dubliners this August to think about just how this collection has come to shape our image and ideas of Ireland and how it transformed the short story form.
This four-session seminar will explore some of the lesser known stories in the collection — stories that Joyce himself considered important to his development as a writer and that contemporary short story writers and critics believe shaped the modern form. We will end with a session on “The Dead.” (Now I know some of you have read this magnificent work with me before and some are scheduled to read it with me in Dublin. BUT I can tell you that this masterpiece has soooo much in it that . . . .well, there will never be enough time to explore all that Joyce has captured here!)
Ireland September 2025 tour registrants take $150 off the registration price.
Practical details
Once you register, you’ll get an order confirmation. We’ll send you the Zoom link and a welcome letter from your leader in the week ahead of the seminar starting.
Classical Pursuits will record this seminar, and make each session privately available to registered participants for up to two weeks after that session.
Online seminar payments are nonrefundable. Discount codes must be used at the time of purchase.
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