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Abstract: The city in Dubliners is a haunted place, populated by multitudes of ghosts, clamouring to be seen and heard in ways that require special skills to decipher the power of their presence, their absences, bearing testimony to the contacts, the secrets that bind the living and the dead. Such strange geography requires sensitive mapping, for it is as if Joyce sees his task as that of cartographer able to imagine the twists and turns, the inclines and the heights, even the abyss of the human minds and souls of all shaped by this city of ambiguities in this country of maddening riddles, for Dublin and Ireland take dominant roles in every page of Joyce's writing. His obsession is then with his nation's living and dead, and ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: One of the girls hoisted her skirt suddenly, pulled and ripped at her pink step-ins and tore them to a sizable flag; then, screaming "Ben! Ben!" she waved it wildly.1After my Persian translation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night was reviewed by the censorship office in the Iranian Ministry of Cultural and Islamic Guidance, I received a letter which listed several words and sentences that had to be removed from the novel. In Iran, the deployment of controversial themes, topics, or phrases in literature often culminates in, at best, a request for such alterations. Resistance to censorship results in the banning or seizure of the provocative work. In the quotation above, the censorship office took issue ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On 24 July 2010, the Irish Independent ran a story that might have been startling for those familiar with the alleged origins of Ulysses. Somewhat breathlessly, the paper's Security Editor, Tom Brady, reported: 'A man was in garda custody last night after a father-to-be was stabbed to death when he attempted to break up a row. Good Samaritan James Joyce (20) was struck several times in the upper body with a domestic knife'.1 The writer James Joyce was putatively involved in a fight 106 years before this incident and was rescued by a Good Samaritan — or so the legend goes. The truth is much more complicated. And understanding this likely apocryphal incident and its effect on Joyce and his epic reveal a writer and a ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In spite of Joyce's 'extraordinary attempt at racial and period specificity',1 not only in Finnegans Wake, but at least as early as the lines of descent so carefully delineated in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, he is not bound by narrow, nationalist definitions of Irishness. This is evinced by the vision of a new, independent Ireland he proposes in his 1907 lecture, known in English as 'Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages',2 which is radically different to what emerges once the 'price partitional of twenty six and six' (FW 264.22–3) was paid under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. Yet both Joyce's vision of an Ireland 'truly capable of resurgence' (OCPW 'Saints and Sages' 125), and that promulgated by ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: As Dirk Van Hulle observes, the German Letter of 9 July 1937 sent by Samuel Beckett to Axel Kaun is now more frequently than not preceded by the epithet 'oft-quoted'.3 We are nonetheless beholden, while acknowledging that frequency of quotation, to also repeating it, bound to the concision with which it both outlines a Beckettian poetics and announces a volta in modernism through the distinction of that poetics from the Joycean mode. According to Beckett, his 'literature of the unword'4 would differ from that of Joyce by exploiting 'impotence, ignorance' instead of 'tending toward omniscience and omnipotence'.5 Rather than 'making words do the absolute maximum of work', he would attempt a 'kind of work … in which I ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Parnell occupies a strange place in Irish historical memory. The most commanding figure in Irish politics in the second half of the nineteenth century, he sustained a series of terrible reversals in 1890–1 in what became known as the Parnell split and died at the age of forty-five on 6 October 1891. His funeral cortege seemed to rumble in perpetual commemorative motion through the Irish capital in the last decade of the century. The posthumous cult of Parnell could not prevail against the scale of his final defeat, and the brutal foreclosure wrought by the death of the leader of a movement whose trajectory and momentum were peculiarly dependent on his political genius. Irish politics in the 1890s were largely given ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Obsessed as they are by the heroic minutiae of the Irish newspaper trade, the journalists in 'Aeolus' are almost contractually obliged to at least allude to one of the most legendary exploits of Irish journalism, namely the one involving 'our watchful friend The Skibbereen Eagle' (U 7.734–5). Gifford's annotation gets the basics right, but errs on the specifics and misses much nuance:A general weekly newspaper, published in Skibbereen, County Cork (c. 1840–1930); originally the Skibbereen Eagle, it became the Munster Eagle after the 1860s, and by 1904 it was being published as the Cork County Eagle. The newspaper that replaced the Eagle after the 1930s is called the Southern Star. The original change of name was ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Women never meet one like that Wilkins in the high school drawing a picture of Venus with all his belongings on show. Call that innocence' Poor idiot! His wife has her work cut out for her. Never see them sit on a bench marked Wet Paint. Eyes all over them (U 13.909–12).Wilkins is mentioned only once in Ulysses, in the above passage from 'Nausicaa'.1 According to Don Gifford, William Wilkins (1853–1912) was 'headmaster of High School of Erasmus Smith, 40 Harcourt Street'.2 Vivien Igoe also records that he was the headmaster at Erasmus Smith High School, having published a poetry collection, Songs of Study, in 1881.3 Matthew Creasy notes his role as headmaster, while Luca Crispi comments that 'a real Mr William ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On Friday, 29 June 2018, Alexis Leopold Léon passed away after a short illness in hospital in Southsea, England. He was a charming, kind-hearted, and modest man: a true gentleman. Alex is profoundly missed by his wife, Anna Maria (Marilena) Scala, and her children, Marco and Barbara, their spouses and children, as well as by all of us who had the great pleasure of having him as a friend. This sad news also marks another milestone in James Joyce's legacy. Born in Paris on 12 September 1925 to Paul Leopold Léon and Elizabeth Lucie Léon (Noel), Alex was one of the last surviving members of the inner Joyce circle during the final decade of the writer's life.Alex Léon was awarded his Baccalaureate by the Lycée Louis Le ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The combination of academic and social events at this year's Dublin Joyce School provided the participants with a brilliant opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of James Joyce. The structure of the week-long programme, which comprises two morning lectures, afternoon seminars, and evening social events, led to an intensive and enjoyable and not excruciatingly exerting experience.The beginning of the school was marked by an informal gathering at Buswell's Hotel on a Sunday evening. The gathering brought together veteran Joyceans and new Joyce enthusiasts and promised an exciting week ahead. Anne Fogarty, the director of the school and Professor of James Joyce Studies at University College Dublin, delivered ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This essay presents an argument that the significance of Joyce's relationship to Parnell and to the split in Parnell's lifetime (1890–1) continues to be underestimated. It proceeds from the premise that irrespective of the degree to which A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a whole can be taken to be autobiographical, the Christmas dinner scene affords a stylized account — that is, sad to say, invented — of Joyce's boyhood exposure to the Parnell split. That is on the basis that it is a politically coherent and that Joyce never offered any other account of the origins of his Parnellism. The Parnellite allegiance in the split of Joyce's father and of his father's friend John Kelly who was the archetype of the ... Read More PubDate: 2021-05-05T00:00:00-05:00
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