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- Loweringthe Wind
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Abstract: Ulysses is a book about stories, about the ways in which we weave the narratives of our lives, twisting together bits of memory, music, joy, pain, and wonder. It's about how we fall into grand patterns and yet use the tiniest of details—a bar of soap, a dented hat, a stolen kiss under a wall—to make them into something new. Near the end of the book, the exhausted Leopold Bloom sinks into bed and, in thinking about Molly's lovers, also hits on this deep truth. We all imagine ourselves to be first, to be unique and alone, but tangled as we are in the lives, histories, stories, and structures of a vast cosmos, we are "neither the first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Thomas F. Staley: Alchemist and Time Traveler
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Abstract: In 1963, the legend goes, an ambitious young professor with a newly minted Ph.D. from Pitt came home to Tulsa with the aim of making what was then the oil capital of the world into an intellectual powerhouse. So he took to his garage and, with the help of a few students, began laying out a modestly sized magazine audaciously titled the James Joyce Quarterly. Thirty-six cheaply set pages were stapled between Kelly green covers and accompanied by a deceptively reserved editorial statement: "The idea of the JJQ grew out of a modestly conceived notion to draw Joyceans together and to publish provocative essays dealing with Joyce's life, work, and milieu." Those who knew Tom understood there was nothing modest about ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- "Almighty Dirt": A Report on "Caliban's Mirror: The 2022 Wilde and Joyce
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Abstract: For the first time in around three years, I attended an in-person conference. Instead of an abrupt transition from the world of online symposia, this move into the reality of dear dirty Dublin felt, thankfully, smooth and natural. The first thing to say about "Caliban's Mirror: The 2022 Wilde and Joyce Symposium" is that the conference could easily not have happened at all. Obstacles facing speakers included visa problems and an ongoing global pandemic, and panels as advertised on the website had to be changed as and when needs arose, calling for altruism from one attendee, Jinan Ashraf, who volunteered to move her paper on Joyce's influence on Indian modernism to one of the final panels. That the conference went ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Helping to Complete the Sean and Mary Kelly James Joyce Collection
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Abstract: As book dealers, my wife Margy and I were introduced to Sean Kelly by a mutual friend in early 2010. By that time, Kelly had already assembled the world's finest collection of signed first editions of the works of James Joyce, now part of the Morgan Library and Museum. His private library, overlooking the river in New York's Hudson Valley, is surely one of the world's most beautiful. After visiting there, we realized we could be most helpful to Kelly in securing just a few primary Joyce works his collection was missing, as well as supplying other historically important materials like ephemera, reference works, journals, and early critical studies. His appreciation of the significance of these books and documents to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- James Joyce and the Writing of the Tomb
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Abstract: When asked for the "scheme" of his about-to-be-published Ulysses, James Joyce "protested humorously," explaining: "If I gave it all up immediately, I'd lose my immortality. I've put in so many puzzles and enigmas that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."1 By asserting the power of a book to defy death—humorously but perhaps also seriously—the remark resonates with an epiphany about books that flits across Stephen Dedalus's mind in Ulysses's "Scylla and Charybdis" episode, which is set in the National Library: "Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Returns of "The Dead": Paul Muldoon's Adaptations of "The Dead"
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Abstract: Ever since his debut collection New Weather, Paul Muldoon has been recognized as a playfully allusive poet for whom incidents from everyday life offer endless imaginary possibilities.2 In a pioneering study of his work, Clair Wills has argued that, in Muldoon, "there's a surfeit of allusions ranging from the most arcane to the most intimate (even obscene). But paradoxically the wealth of cultural and autobiographical reference doesn't help to ground the poetry"; she then adds that "it's almost as though there are too many pointers, and no real way of knowing how to read them."3 As Wills proceeds to trace many of those pointers to explicate the seeming abstruseness of the poems, Muldoon, in her estimation, cuts a ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- "Form of Forms": Meter and Sound as Registers of Irish Identity in James
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Abstract: While walking along Sandymount Strand in "Proteus," Stephen translates the ocean's sounds into words: "a four-worded wavespeech: seesoo, hrss, rsseeiss, ooos. . . . In cups of rocks it slops: flop, slop, slap."1 His words and their sound effects evoke a particular sense of the ocean's movement and of its tides, but they also allude to several of Stephen's worries: he fears that he is a literary "flop," and he thinks that he should be punished for denying his mother's wishes on her deathbed. Even though Ulysses is a work of prose rather than poetry, scenes like this one show us the interpretive value of considering the metrical and musical qualities of Joyce's novel. In this essay, I explain how a focus on meter and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- The Monsters of Finnegans Wake: James Joyce and the Revelations of Art
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Abstract: The scholiast has hungrily misheard a deadman's toller as a muffinbell.1Joseph Conrad remarks at the beginning of a famous preface that "[a] work that aspires, however, humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."2 Art, under this description, is not a given; it is something achieved, something that must show itself and justify itself as art. We could say the same about the painting and sculpture of Pablo Picasso and the music of Arnold Schoenberg. Finnegans Wake seems to be a work within the same genus of sui generis modernist art, but the Wake lacks the underlying syntactical coherence of Schoenberg's twelve-tone music: it lacks the visceral power of Picasso; it lacks the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- "Allspace in a Notshall": Examining Bygmester HCE's Cosmopolitan
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Abstract: In the introduction to his A "Finnegans Wake" Gazetteer, the renowned geographer Louis O. Mink writes, with some frustration, that Dublin as depicted in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake "violates geographical coordinates."1 Mink's annoyance is warranted to some extent because in his Gazetteer he aims to provide maps of the Wake's Dublin and Chapelizod (256). In these maps, he painstakingly identifies Chapelizod/Dublin locations that appear in the text. Mapping the Wake's Dublin is difficult, however, because the Wake, in its characteristic linguistic pyrotechnics, often combines multiple actual and imaginary locations into one. Such cartographical projects become especially challenging in the "Haveth Childers ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Current JJ Checklist (143)
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Abstract: Our thanks to the contributors to this number of the "Current Checklist": Sabrina Alonso, Massimo Bacigalupo, Robert Baines, Annie Copeland, Sam Frederick, Richard Gerber, Vincent Golden, Rafaël Newman, Lauri Niskanen, Patrick O'Neill, Tim O'Neill, Fritz Senn, Robert Spoo, and Dirk Vanderbeke. The retrospective James Joyce Checklist, hosted since 2008 by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, not only compiles citations from earlier issues of the JJQ but also provides extensive coverage of editions, criticism, and research dating back to Joyce's lifetime. This resource is available at https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/jamesjoycechecklist/. Please send contributions or suggestions to your ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- James Henry: The Translator of Ulysses into Irish
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Abstract: Ulysses was published in 1922. It was not translated into Irish until seventy years later.In December 1991, the translation of Joyce's masterstroke into Irish was finished by James Henry (Séamas Ó hInnéirghe) and called Uiliséas.1 A polymath, Henry was first introduced to Ulysses by a relative living in Buffalo, New York, who sent him the novel while Henry was a medical student at University College Dublin, in the 1930s.2 The translation took Henry, who suffered from an autoimmune disease, approximately eight years to complete from 1984 to 1992. Working mainly from the living room of his Belfast home on an electric typewriter, Henry, a retired medical doctor and career Royal Air Force officer, accomplished the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys: Nabokov, Joyce, and Others by Jessica
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Abstract: For Europeans of a certain age, the archetypal issue of The New Yorker has a drawing on its cover by either Jean-Michel Folon or Saul Steinberg. Although their styles are completely different, both of them worked with Hergé's ligne claire style of drawing, and they also shared a poetic and literary sensibility.1 But before reading Jessica R. Feldman's book, the first longer study of the artist's work that is based on the holdings of both the Saul Steinberg Foundation and the Beinecke Library at Yale University, I had no idea that Steinberg's work had such a rich intellectual grounding in literary modernism. When he was asked which artists had most influenced his work, the artist's answer was James Joyce and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018 by Seamus Deane (review)
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Abstract: In one of the earliest set pieces of the sublime, De Rerum Natura, Lucretius imagines the powerful impact of a scene in which a shipwreck at sea is watched by an awestruck spectator on the shore. Famously, Lucretius remarks that the "delight" on such an occasion comes not from the desire "to watch another's labouring anguish far" and "that a man should thus be smitten," but rather because "'tis sweet to mark what evils we ourselves be spared." Distance lends self-preservation to the view, and danger and terror exert endless fascination so long as our own lives are not at stake.In the tour de force of critical writing that marks the final essay in Small World, "The End of the World," Seamus Deane re-enacts a ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- The Paris Residences of James Joyce by Martina Nicolls (review)
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Abstract: James Joyce moved home around fifty times during his lifetime. It was a custom he inherited from his father, whose profligacy resulted in his changing house every couple of years, so that, by the time Joyce left Ireland in 1904, he had lived in eighteen houses, generally each one smaller than the last.1 The process must have become ingrained, for Joyce continued the practice in Trieste (where he moved home ten times, excluding his stay in Rome), in Zurich (six times, excepting his time in Locarno), and in Paris where Martina Nicolls tells us that "Joyce lived in ten apartments and eight hotels" during his twenty years there (3). Once Ulysses was published in February 1922, Joyce was able to reverse the downsizing ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- James Joyce in Zurich: A Guide by Andreas Fischer (review)
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Abstract: While on a stroll with Frank Budgen, Joyce announced his ambitions for Ulysses: "I want . . . to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book."1 Significantly, Joyce made this assertion while walking in Zurich, and this neutral Swiss city, which provided a home for Joyce during two world wars and formed his final resting place, is the focal point of Andreas Fischer's new book. Just as Joyce evoked the historic Dublin of his youth, so Fischer reconstructs the city of Zurich as it was in Joyce's lifetime. But whereas Joyce aimed to be compendious and was tempted into writing ever longer episodes as Ulysses progressed ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950 by Katherine Ebury
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Abstract: Katherine Ebury's Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950 focuses on a period of what Ebury calls relative "quiescence, where only the gradual reforms of capital punishment seemed possible" (14). As she points out, studies of capital punishment in literature have largely constellated around the British nineteenth century and contemporary American culture. Ebury's book aims at a "specific gap" (2): not only the understudied first half of the twentieth century but also a broad gamut of modern literature, both high and low, ranging from stories, literary novels, and genre fiction to polemic, criminological, and psychological tracts and letters and memoirs by prisoners and executioners.Ebury is particularly ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- James Joyce and Education: Schooling and the Social Imaginary in the
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Abstract: I felt fortunate to be able to read this book while teaching a course on Joyce: because it feels fortunate to be able to teach at all, given the continuing "assault" on liberal education that Platt bemoans in his postscript (179); because it feels fortunate to teach Joyce in particular, as fewer jobs for those interested in doing that are advertised; and especially because I kept finding in this book passages I wanted to discuss with my students, and that made me reflect in various unaccustomed ways about what I thought I was doing in teaching such a course. The takeaways were not, for the most part, cheerful. For all Len Platt's enthusiasm about why Joyce's writings should still interest us as educators, even or ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Imagining Ithaca: Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War by Kathleen
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Abstract: Imagining Ithaca is not primarily a book about literary responses to the Odyssey, and thus it is not much concerned with Ulysses, the subject of a paragraph in the introduction and a few passing mentions thereafter. Rather, Kathleen Riley's declared theme is "the contemplation of Home from a distance" (21), and her book consists of readings of a wide range of films, novels, plays, poems, and memoirs that appeared between 1918 and 2017.Aside from the introduction and epilogue, the book is arranged in six parts, incorporating nineteen numbered chapters. The text's first part is about homecoming in the context of the world wars, and it consists of separate accounts of Great War novels by Rebecca West and Erich Maria ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
- Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd by Judith Paltin (review)
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Abstract: Every once in a while, we encounter a monograph whose central idea seems so integral to modernist studies that we wonder how it did not exist before. How have the crowds of crowds in modernist literature gone largely unnoticed' Like many other questions that you may have about crowds at the beginning of the twentieth century, Judith Paltin has an answer for that: "I have wondered whether the critical neglect within literary studies may partly arise because narrative analyses are traditionally weighted toward discussing individual actors within plots and settings, and a fortiori, modernist studies, in particular, analyzed so closely and for so many decades the alienated individual who surveys the world from an ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
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