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JJBN: MACCABE-2021
MacCabe, Colin. James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford UP, 2021.
CONTENTS
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
1. A publication in pot-First World War Paris
2. Dubliners
3. A Portrait
4. Ulysses
5. Finnegans Wake
6. The Aunt Josephine Paradox
Further reading
Index
ABOUT THE BOOK
James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template for the Coming of Age novel, while his collection of short stories, Dubliners, is of perennial interest. His great modern epic, Ulysses, took the city of Dublin for its setting and all human life for its subject, and its publication in 1922 marked the beginning of the modern novel. Joyce's final work, Finnegans Wake is an endless experiment in narrative and language. But if Joyce is a great writer he is also the most difficult writer in English. Finnegans Wake is written in a freshly invented language, and Ulysses exhausts all the forms and styles of English. Even the apparently simple Dubliners has plots of endless complexity, while the structure of A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man is exceptionally intricate.
This Very Short Introduction explores the work of this most influential yet complex writer, and analyses how Joyce's difficulty grew out of his situation as an Irish writer unwilling to accept the traditions of his imperialist oppressor, and contemptuous of the cultural banality of the Gaelic revival. Joyce wanted to investigate and celebrate his own life, but this meant investigating and celebrating the drunks of Dublin's pubs and the prostitutes of Dublin's brothels. No subject was alien to him and he developed the naturalist project of recording all aspects of life with the symbolist project of finding significant correspondences in the most unlikely material. Throughout, Colin MacCabe interweaves Joyce's life and history with his books, and draws out their themes and connections.
1920s
Gorman, Herbert. James Joyce: His First Forty Years. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1924.
Lewis, Wyndham. Time and Western Man. Chatto and Windus, 1927.
Herbert Gorman / James Joyce: His First Forty Years (1924)
JJBN: GORMAN-1924
Gorman, Herbert. James Joyce: His First Forty Years. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1924.
Bibliography
Witemeyer, Hugh. "He Gave the Name": Herbert Gorman's Rectifications of "James Joyce: His First Forty Years." JJQ (32)
Wyndham Lewis / Time and Western Man (1927)
JJBN: LEWIS-1927
Lewis, Wyndham. Time and Western Man. Chatto and Windus, 1927.（右画像は2003年新版の書影)
CONTENTS
Book I THE REVOLUTIONARY SIMPLETON
PREFACE
CHAPTER I: Some of the meanings of romance
CHAPTER II: The Principle of advetisement and its relation to romance
CHAPTER III: Romance and the moralist mind
CHPATER IV: The romance of action
CHAPTER V: Art movements and the mass idea
CHAPTER VI: The revolutionary simpleton
CHAPTER VII: The russian ballet the most perfect expression of the High Bohemia
CHAPTER VIII: The principal 'revolutionary' tendency to-day that of a return to earlier forms of life
CHAPTER IX: Ezra Pound, etc.
CHAPTER X: Tests for counterfeit in the arts
CHAPTER XI: A brief account of the child-cult
CHAPTER XII: 'Time' -children. Miss Gertrude Stein and Miss Anita Loos
CHAPTER XIII: The prose-song of Gertrude Stein
CHAPTER XIV: The secret of the success of Charlie Chaplin
CHAPTER XV: A man in love with the past
CHAPTER XVI: An analysis of the mind of James Joyce
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
BOOK II AN ANALYSIS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF TIME
PREFACE
PART I
CHAPTER I: Professor Alexander and the age of time or motion
CHAPTER II: The philosophy of the instruments of research
CHAPTER III: Spatialization and concreteness
CHAPTER IV: Pure poetry and pure magic
CHAPTER V: Romantic Art called in to assist in the destruction of 'Materialism'
CHAPTER VI: The popular counters, 'action' and 'life'
CHAPTER VII: 'Time' upon the social plane and in philosophy
CHAPTER VIII: The fusion of idealism and realism
PART II
CHAPTER I: History as the specific art of the time school
CHAPTER II: The 'choronological' philosophy of Spengler
CONCLUSION OF ANALYSIS OF SPENGLER
CHAPTER III: The subject conceived as king of the psychological world
PART III
CHAPTER I: Science and scepticism
CHAPTER II: Belief and reality
CHAPTER III: God as reality
CHAPTER IV: The object conceived as king of the physical world
CHAPTER V: Space and Time
CONCLUSION