LEADER
Dr. Wendy O’Brien is a philosopher with over 35 years’ experience teaching in academic and non-academic environments, including at Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Wilfrid Laurier University, Harvard, Oxford and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She’s conducted many seminars and webinars for Classical Pursuits and Worldwide Quest on a wide range of subject matter that lie at the intersection of philosophy, literature and the visual arts.
BOOK
A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
James Joyce, Everyman Library, 1991 (reissued)
ISBN:9780679405757
Edition recommended, but not required
“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.” So ends Joyce’s masterpiece A Portrait of An Artist As A Young Man and so began a new literary tradition. In this seminar we undertake a reading of this text, considering the many and various ways Joyce’s innovations in and through this text challenged and changed conventional notions of identity construction, of the bildungsroman, and of writing itself.
Registrants who book a place on our September 2025 Songs of Wandering: 20th-Century Irish Literature tour with Wendy save 50% on this seminar. Contact us for details at info@classicalpursuits.com
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 about 3 weeks before the seminar starts.
Classical Pursuits will record this seminar, and make each session privately available to registered participants for up to two weeks after that session.
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