Tag Archives: James Joyce

“A Moveable Feast” by Ernest Hemingway

We revisit Hemingway's classic to contemplate how the deaths of WWI hovered over Paris' "roaring" years.
Posted on May 13, 2016 by MaryFrances Knapp (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

I’d never meditated on “A Moveable Feast“’s relationship with death. Sure, I’d thought of Ernest Hemingway’s classic as a book about the obvious: hunger and gratitude, honesty and unrelenting love. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were champions of the latter … Continue reading →

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“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.”

- James Joyce, Ulysses
Posted on July 21, 2015 by MaryFrances Knapp (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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“At That Hour” by James Joyce

Discussing love and death in James Joyce's "At That Hour"
Posted on October 8, 2012 by Kelly Larsen (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

I’ve written many times in this column about the wide range of interpretations that poetry is open to. I definitely faced that this week when I found “At That Hour,” by James Joyce. Joyce is, by nature, a very complex … Continue reading →

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“The Dead” by James Joyce

James Joyce shows us the importance of equilibrium between past and present
Posted on September 19, 2011 by Kelly Larsen (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

This past week in my Twentieth Century Literature class, we discussed “The Dead,” a short story by James Joyce that is part of his larger work, Dubliners. I remember borrowing this book from the library one summer in high school, … Continue reading →

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