Tag Archives: James Joyce

Portrait of the Lesbian as a Young Artist

By Robin Bates | Published: December 4, 2014

Proust and James Joyce were particularly important in helping Alison Bechdel negotiate her complex relations with her father.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged A. A. Milne, Alison Bechdel, Autobiography, Catcher in the Rye, Colette, Fun House, homosexuality, Importance of Being Earnest, J. D. Salinger, James and the Giant Peach, lesbianism, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Remembrance of Things Past, Roald Dahl, Ulysses, Winnie the Pooh | Comments closed

Captain Nemo Invades New England

By Robin Bates | Published: February 13, 2013

Snowstorm Nemo set in conjunction with Joyce’s “The Dead” leads to some interesting reflections.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Stopping by Woods on a Winter Evening", Dead, Nemo, Robert Frost, snow, weather | Comments closed

If They Lose, Irish Can Turn to Poetry

By Robin Bates | Published: January 5, 2013

Even if they lose the national championship game, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame have Ireland’s poetic legacy to fall back on.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Easter 1916", "Irish Airman Foresees His Death", Alabama Crimson Tide, Dubliners, Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, Football, Jonathan Swift, Modest Proposal, Sports, Ulysses, William Butler Yeats | Comments closed

Pan’s Call–The Return of the Repressed

By Robin Bates | Published: December 2, 2012

Pan became a major figure for turn-of-the-century poets and artists.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Afternoon of a Faun", Bacchae, Euripides, Finnegans Wake, Guillaume Apollinaire, Heresiarch and Company, James Barrie, Kenneth Grahame, Mallarmé (Stéphane), mythology, Paganism, Pan, Peter Pan, Peter Weir, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rudyard Kipling, Theocritus, Ulysses, wind in the willows | Comments closed

From Spiritual Hunger to Obesity Epidemic

By Robin Bates | Published: August 1, 2010

Spiritual Sunday My wife Julia has been telling me about a book that she’s reading, Geneen Roth’s Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything. The thesis of the book seems to be that overeating, like other compulsions and obsessions, is a means of escaping a spiritual emptiness. Or to put it another […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "When Death Comes", Dubliners, Emptiness, English Patient, Hunger, Mary Oliver, Michael Ondaatje, Nikos Kazantzakis, Religion, Spirituality, Zorba the Greek | Comments closed