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Robin Mitchell Cranfield’s unique analysis of the Ulysses universe

Peak Web October 8, 2022

By: Petra Chase, Arts and Culture Editor Irish novelist James Joyce’s modernist novel, Ulysses, is widely known in literary circles as notoriously tedious to get through. With 732 pages of inventive language and experimental style, it’s considered a great feat to tackle the book in its entirety, and most people who take up the challenge surrender in the first chapter. Set in a single day in Dublin in 1904, Ulysses has long been an enigma to me, which is why I was intrigued by print designer and illustrator Robin Mitchell Cranfield’s lecture at the Alcuin Society, “Banana Peels & Falling…

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Dr. Paul Budra gives a fascinating talk on The Shakespeare Conspiracy

Arts April 5, 2020

by Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer Sometimes I wish that I were an English major, which is what I thought I would be back in middle school. Attending Dr. Paul Budra’s talk titled The Shakespeare Conspiracy gave me a small glimpse of…

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