Cities in Literature and Music | Reading Course

This six-week course examines the roles that major cities of Dublin, Trieste, London, Paris, Cordoba, and Prague have played in both literary and musical works.

This course will take readers to Dublin with James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Readers will then explore London through Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray before proceeding to Paris with Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera. We explore Cordoba with Prosper Merimee’s novella Carmen, ending in Prague with The Metamorphosis and Utz by Bruce Chatwin.

Musical explorations of these cities will include works by M.W. Balfe, G.F. Hændel, Thomas Moore, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Giuseppe Verdi, Georges Bizet, Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak.