Jeri Johnson
Senior Fellow in English at Exeter College, Oxford
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
CultureCensored booksNovels first published in serial formModernist writersIrish male dramatists and playwrightsModernismIrish male poetsLiterary theoristsModernist novelsTrope theoristsIrish expatriates in FranceIrony theoristsNovels about adultery20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsMetaphor theoristsIrish male novelistsNonlinear narrative novelsNovels set in one dayHumor researchersSurrealist writersIrish novels adapted into films, Irish novels adapted into playsIrish satiristsDeaths from ulcersEyepatch wearers20th-century letter writers20th-century Irish novelists, 20th-century Irish short story writers, Irish male short story writers
James Joyce's Ulysses
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce's celebrated novel Ulysses.
14 June 2012
Also featuring: Steven Connor, Richard Brown
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing up in Catholic Ireland.
26 November 2009
Also featuring: Roy Foster, Katherine Mullin
CultureIrish satirists20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsModernist writersTrope theoristsHumor researchersIrish expatriates in FranceIrish male dramatists and playwrightsMetaphor theoristsDeaths from ulcersIrish male novelistsSurrealist writersEyepatch wearersModernism20th-century letter writersIrony theorists20th-century Irish novelists, 20th-century Irish short story writers, Irish male short story writersIrish male poetsLiterary theorists20th centuryIreland