{"id":1881,"date":"2022-10-26T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2022-10-26T12:12:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:12:16","slug":"dancing-in-the-dark-re-mythologising-james-joyces-bat-like-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/dancing-in-the-dark-re-mythologising-james-joyces-bat-like-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing in the Dark: Re-Mythologising James Joyce&#8217;s Bat-Like Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bat-joycegarvey.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bat-joycegarvey.jpg 602w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bat-joycegarvey-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>October 24 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme of this composite artistic event is concomitant and Dr. Caroline Elbay\u2019s talk will address how, from the \u2018bat-like soul\u2019 of <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em> to the \u2019little bats [who] don\u2019t tell\u2019 in <em>Ulysses<\/em> and the \u2018bawk of bats\u2019 in <em>Finnegans Wake<\/em>, Joyce\u2019s alignment of the bat with female characters essentially debunks negative stereotypes, thus placing the bat in its rightful place as a symbol of the creative spirit and positioning women in an environment of growing self-empowerment and liberation in the modern world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Caroline Elbay&#8217;s talk will take place on Monday, 24 October at 7pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition will run from 24 October to 7 November and will feature original art and film by Dr. Joyce Garvey that are inspired by the myriad references to bats across the Joycean oeuvre and also by Lucia Joyce&#8217;s illustrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 24 2022 The theme of this composite artistic event is concomitant and Dr. Caroline Elbay\u2019s talk will address how, from the \u2018bat-like soul\u2019 of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to the \u2019little bats [who] don\u2019t tell\u2019 in Ulysses and the \u2018bawk of bats\u2019 in Finnegans Wake, Joyce\u2019s alignment of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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