{"id":12269,"date":"2022-01-23T11:31:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T10:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=12269"},"modified":"2022-03-17T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:07:06","slug":"modern-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=12269","title":{"rendered":"Modern Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whether over lunch, or in the midst of bedtime ritual, beginning tomorrow and for ten consecutive weekdays (Jan 24 – Feb 4), BBC Radio 4<\/em> presents a reading<\/a> of Mrs. Dalloway<\/em>; embedded within what the BBC<\/em> calls a “celebration of the birth of Modernism a hundred years ago”<\/em>. Here, the reference is to literary<\/em> Modernism and the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses<\/em> in 1922 (and Eliot’s The Waste Land<\/em>). Virginia Woolf’s ‘one day’ novel was published three years later, but fits very well in the modernist tradition – and may justifiably be considered (by the broadcaster) more readable (and listenable) than Joyce’s epic work; dense as it is in allusion and parody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start the Week<\/em> tomorrow morning<\/a> (with Kirsty Wark – the third presenter in three weeks – and I am still getting used to NOT starting the week<\/em> with Andrew Marr!) starts the season<\/em> with a discussion that broadens the scope of modernism beyond the literary – into the visual arts, music and the public space. One of the guests is Matthew Sweet whose ten part series 1922: The Birth of Now<\/em> also begins tomorrow<\/a> (through to Feb 4). [BBC is quite generous, and most of these links should remain live for some time.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presumably, there is more in store across the BBC<\/em> but I can’t find the theme centrally organized (generally this is a problem with Sounds<\/a><\/em> – and I know I’m not alone in this opinion!). I actually only became aware of an upcoming “Modernism” project through a passing reference<\/a> on Feedback<\/em> at the end of last year and was reminded with a programming note on Open Book<\/em> last week. That episode<\/a>, by the way, is all about Ulysses<\/em>, and listening to the very interest<\/em>ing participants has motivated me to consider<\/strong> (and not for the first time, and as an important condition) diving in. Given <\/em>this interest<\/em> of mine in the modernists, and my interest<\/em> in their interest<\/em> in the ancients, I shouldn’t need to be pushed (one would think), and rather have been tempted to jump in long ago. Or do I have an insurmountable interest<\/em> conflict?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I have at least tracked down a very good digital version of Ulysses<\/em>, and there is no shortage of study material, so I will collate what I have in a separate post for future reference. For the moment, may I just refer to Virginia Woolf’s struggle with Joyce<\/a> (which she never really resolved – personally, I’m not totally convinced she read Ulysses<\/em> in its entirety nor any of his other works) in particular and, more generally, Volume 2<\/em> of her diary which includes this year; one which for her was just another, and was to become for us (and maybe posterity), and unbeknownst to her, much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether over lunch, or in the midst of bedtime ritual, beginning tomorrow and for ten consecutive weekdays (Jan 24 – Feb 4), BBC Radio 4 presents a reading of Mrs. Dalloway; embedded within what the BBC calls a “celebration of the birth of Modernism a hundred years ago”. Here, the reference is to literary Modernism … Continue reading “Modern Reading”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,149,25,22],"tags":[77,320,98,134,136],"class_list":["post-12269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-literature","category-mrs-dalloway","category-virginia-woolf","tag-james-joyce","tag-modernism","tag-mrs-dalloway","tag-ulysses","tag-virginia-woolf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12269"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12700,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269\/revisions\/12700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}