1990s-2

JJBN: LAWRENCE-1998

Lawrence, Karen, editor. Transcultural Joyce. Cambridge UP, 1998.

CONTENTS

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: metempsychotic Joyce Karen Lawrence

Part I. Irish 'Compaliens':

2. James Joyce: the mystery of influence Eavan Boland

3. Joyce's ghost: the bogey of realism in John McGahern's Amongst Women Maria DiBattista

4. In transit: from James Joyce to Brigid Brophy Karen Lawrence

Part II. Postmodern, Post-Colonial Transpositions:

5. Cabrera Infante - unruly pupil Michael Wood

6. Barroco Joyce: Jorge Luis Borges' and José Lezama Lima's antagonistic readings Cesar Augusto Salgado

7. Postcolonial affiliations: Ulysses and All About H. Hatterr Srinivas Aravamudan

8. Rereading the exodus: Frankenstein, Ulysses, The Satanic Verses, and other postcolonial texts Ronald Bush

9. The art of memory: Joyce and Perec Jacques Mailhos

Part III. Transtextuality:

10. Anna Livia Plurabelle's sisters Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli

11. Anna Livia's French bifurcations Daniel Ferrer and Jacques Aubert

12. ALP Deutsch: ob uberhaupt möglich Fritz Senn

13. Anna Livia's Italian sister Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli

14. ALP in Roumanian (with some notes on Roumanian in Finnegan's Wake and in the notebooks) Laurent Milesi

15. The Spanish translation of Anna Livia Plurabelle Francisco Garcia Tortosa

16. The artistic integrity of Joyce's text in translation Di Jin

Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

 In Transcultural Joyce, a team of leading international scholars assess the afterlife of James Joyce and his writings within a multinational context. How does Joyce haunt the works of later writers in diverse literary traditions? How well does he translate from one culture and language to another? This book consider Joyce's reincarnations in texts from Latin America, Europe, and South Asia. Transcultural Joyce provides a fresh theoretical examination of conventional notions such as 'influence' and 'translation' and asks how Joyce is imported across particular cultural boundaries. As a canonical modernist and colonial subject, Joyce inhabits a borderline position that complicates his reception and revision by later writers. This book accounts for his cultural place as specifically Irish and more postcolonial than previous studies have acknowledged. Scholars and translators of Joyce also consider the formidable task of translating his work for a global audience.

• Leading team of international scholars assess Joyce's international influence
• Places Joyce in an Irish and postcolonial context
• Contains essays on the translation and reception of Joyce in several countries 

JJBN: FERRIS-1995

Ferris, Kathleen. James Joyce and the Burden of Disease. UP of Kentucky, 1995.

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations (pp. vi-vi)

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1 The Creative Daemon

2 The wandering Jew in Ulysses

3 Epics of the Body

4 An Insectfable

Epilogue: Dear mysterre Shame’s Voice

Chronology of Joyce’s Medical History

Notes

Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

James Joyce's near blindness, his peculiar gait, and his death from perforated ulcers are commonplace knowledge to most of his readers. But until now, most Joyce scholars have not recognized that these symptoms point to a diagnosis of syphilis. In what is sure to be a controversial work, Kathleen Ferris traces Joyce's medical history as described in his correspondence, in the diaries of his brother Stanislaus, and in the memoirs of his acquaintances, to show that many of his symptoms match those of tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis which, untreated, eventually leads to paralysis. Combining literary analysis and medical detection, Ferris builds a convincing case that this dread disease is the subject of much of Joyce's autobiographical writing. Many of his characters, most notably Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, exhibit the same symptoms as their creator: stiffness of gait, digestive problems, hallucinations, and impaired vision. Ferris also demonstrates that the themes of sin, guilt, and retribution so prevalent in Joyce's works are almost certainly a consequence of his having contracted venereal disease as a young man while frequenting the brothels of Dublin and Paris. By tracing the images, puns, and metaphors that occur in Ulysses and in Finnegans Wake, and by demonstrating their relationship to Joyce's experiences, Ferris shows the extent to which, for Joyce, art did indeed mirror life.

JJBN: DEVLIN-1999

Devlin, Kimberly J. and Marilyn Reizbaum, editors. Ulysses—En-Gendered Perspectives: Eighteen New Essays on the Episodes. U of South Carolina P, 1999.

CONTENTS

Series Editor's Preface

Preface

Abbreviations

"A Little Trouble about Those White Corpuscles": Mockery, Heresy, and the Transubstantiation of Masculinity in "Telemachus"

GARRY LEONARD

Genders of History in "Nestor"

ROBERT SPOO

Old Wives' Tales as Portals of Discovery in "Proteus"

CHERYL HERR

Milly, Molly, and the Mullingar Photo Shop: Developing Negatives in "Calypso"

CAROL SHLOSS

Skinscapes in "Lotus-Eaters"

MAUD ELLMANN

Visible Shades and Shades of Visibility: The En-Gendering of Death in "Hades"

KIMBERLY J. DEVLIN

Machines, Empire, and the Wise Virgins: Cultural Revolution in "Aeolus"

PATRICK MCGEE

Legal Fiction or Pulp Fiction in "Lestrygonians"

KAREN LAWRENCE

The Perils of Masculinity in "Scylla and Charybdis"

JOSEPH VALENTE

Diversions from Mastery in "Wandering Rocks"

BONNIE KIME SCOTT

Political Sirens

JULES LAW

When the Saints Come Marching In: Re-Deeming "Cyclops"

MARILYN REIZBAUM

A Metaphysics of Coitus in "Nausicaa"

JOHN BISHOP

Interesting States: Birthing and the Nation in "Oxen of the Sun"

ENDA DUFFY

Disenchanting Enchantment: The Theatrical Brothel of "Circe"

MARGOT NORRIS

The Double Life of "Eumaeus"

COLLEEN LAMOS

Sidereal Writing: Male Refractions and Malefactions in "Ithaca"

VICKI MAHAFFEY

Molly's Heavenly Body and the Economy of the Sign: The Invention of Gender in "Penelope"

CHRISTINE VAN BOHEEMEN

Notes

About the Contributors

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

Groundbreaking perspectives on the controversial modern epic

Perhaps no literary work of the twentieth century has caused more controversy than James Joyce's Ulysses. The book America wanted to burn has instead earned a place as one of the most complex and most studied volumes of fiction. In this collection of essays each of the eighteen contributors offers new commentary on one of the episodes in Ulysses. Throughout Ulysses—En-Gendered Perspectives the common critical concern is with varying articulations of "femininities" and "masculinities" in Joyce's modernist epic. Each contributor attends to the extensive and various markings of gender in Ulysses and examines the ways in which such markings generate and en-gender other meanings.

Gender is treated as a form of overwriting, in senses that include both excess and layering. Here the differentiations of "masculine" and "feminine," their definitions and elaborations, are approached in multiple ways and in changing contexts. Familial roles, labor assignments, perceptual modes, colonialist categories, sexualities, ethnicities, ways of knowing and learning, scents, tastes, and eating habits are but a few of the cultural phenomena the scholars explore.

Ulysses—En-Gendered Perspectives affords insight into Joyce's masterpiece from the present-day perspective of gender issues and is responsive as well to other influential trends such as historicism, psychoanalysis, and culture critique. 

JJBN: HARKNESS-1990

Harkness, Marguerite. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Voices of the Text. G. K. Hall & Co., 1990.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its author. This approach allows students to arrive at sound analyses of their own, based on in-depth studies of popular literature. Each volume: -- Illuminates themes and concepts of a classic text -- Uses clear, conversational language -- Is an accessible, manageable length from 140 to 170 pages -- Includes a chronology of the author's life and era -- Provides an overview of the historical context -- Offers a summary of its critical reception -- Lists primary and secondary sources and index.

JJBN: GILLESPIE-1999

Gillespie, Michael, editor. Joyce Through the Ages: Nonlinear View. UP of Florida, 1999.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Zack Bowen

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction 

Michael Patrick Gillespie

Chaos Versus Complexity

James Joyce and the Consumption History

Michael Patrick Gillespie

Growing Up Together—Joyce and Psychoanalysis, 1900-1922

Jean Kimball

Chaos Theory and the Heroism of Leopold Bloom

Peter Francis Mackey

The Uncertainty Principle

Adolescence, Humour and Adolescent Humour - One Way of Carving a Turkey

Roy Gottfried

The Conscience of the Race - the Nation as Church of the Modern Age

Pericles Lewis

Stephen, Simon and Eileen Vance -Autoeroticism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Michael H. Begnal

A Polysymbolic Character - Irish and Jewish Folklore in the Apparition of Rudy

Tara Williams

Strange Attractors

Inventing Patrimony - Joyce, Mangan and Irish Nationalism

Heyward Ehrlich

Joyce Redux - Success and Failure as Three American Writers Evoke Joyce

Vivian Valvano Lynch

Snow Through the Ages - Echoes of "The Dead" in O'Brien,

Lavin and O'Faolain

Sandra Manoogian Pearce

Joyce's Hitler

John Gordon

Words Cited

Contributors

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

This selection of essays focuses broadly on social, cultural and historical aspects of age and ageing, using nonlinear perspectives to explore how each topic might be applied to James Joyce and his writings. With a special view that examines non-traditional connections suggested by chaos theory as applied to the humanities, these writers offer a new and unconventional reading of the Joyce canon.

JJBN: BRUNSDALE-1993

Brunsdale, Mitzi. James Joyce: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers, 1993.

CONTENTS

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xvii

Ireland's Bards xxi

PART 1. THE SHORT FICTION

Dubliners

Prelude 3

"The Sisters" 7

"Two Gallants" 14

"Ivy Day in the Committee Room"

"A Little Cloud"

"The Dead" 36

Interlude 47

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Interlude 52

The Artist as Child 56

The Adolescent Portrait 63 "The Obscene Hells of Our Holy Mother"

"Revealing Himself to Himself" 80

The Artist as Alchemist 87

Postlude 100

PART 2. THE WRITER

Introduction

"Ibsen's New Drama" 151

"Paris Notebook" 154

"A Portrait of the Artist"

"Pola Notebook" 165

Letters, 1905-1906

Stephen Hero 172

"Trieste Notebook"

Letters, 1913-1917

PART 3. THE CRITICS

Dubliners

Introduction

Brewster Ghiselin

Florence L. Walzl

Morris Beja

Mary T. Reynolds

Donald T. Torchiana 198

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Introduction

Harry Levin 202

Maurice Beebe

Wayne Booth

Marguerite Harkness 208

Suzette Henke

Patrick Parrinder 210

Bernard Benstock 212

Richard Brown

David W. Robinson 214

Richard F. Peterson

Chronology 221

Glossary of Roman Catholic Terminology

Selected Bibliography 247

Index 

JJBN: DAVISON-1996

Davison, Neil. James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Bilgraphy, and "The Jew" in Modernist Europe. Cambridge UP, 1996. 

CONTENTS

Foreword Anthony Julius

Introduction

1. Silence: family values

2. Silence: Jesuit years: Clongowes and Belvedere

3. Silence: university years: the Church, Dreyfus, and aesthetics

4. Exile: excursion to the Continent, bitter return

5. Cunning and exile: Greeks and Jews

6. Cunning: Jews and the Continent: texts and subtexts

7. Cunning: the miracle of Lazarus times two: Joyce and Italo Svevo

8. Ulysses

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

Representations of 'the Jew' have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies. Neil Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious and political discourse about 'the Jew' forms a unifying component of his career. Davison offers new biographical material, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses showing how Joyce draws on Christian folklore, Dreyfus Affair propaganda, Sinn Fein politics, and theories of Jewish sexual perversion and financial conspiracy. Throughout, Joyce confronts the controversy of 'race', the psychology of internalised stereotype, and the contradictions of fin-de-siècle anti-Semitism.

JJBN: BARTA-1996

Barta, Peter I. Bely, Joyce, and Döblin: Peripatetics in the City Novel. UP of Florida, 1996.

CONTENTS

Contents

Foreword, by Zack Bowen xi

Preface xiii

1. The Emergence of the Modernist City Novel and Its Peripatetic Hero 1 2. Knights and Unicorns: The Walkers of Petersburg 19

3. Ulysses: The City of the Wandering Aengus and the Wandering Jew 47

4. Walking in the Shadow of Death: Berlin Alexanderplatz 76

Conclusion 99

Notes 103

Bibliography 107

Index 119

ABOUT THE BOOK

This work examines the narrative apparatus in three modernist European city novels - Bely's "Petersburg", Joyce's "Dublin" and Döblin's "Berlin". It argues that the narrative combination of rambling, thinking and talking creates a "peripatetic" perspective, a manner of facing oneself to the world.

JJBN: KERSHNER-1996

Kershner, R. B., editor. Joyce and Popular Culture. UP of Florida, 1996.

CONTENTS

Theoretical Approaches

1. Theoretical Approaches to Popular Culture

Derek Attridge;

2. A Tale of "Unwashed Joyceans"—James Joyce, Popular Culture and Popular Theory

David Glover

3. A(dorna) to Ž(ižek)—From the Culture Industry to the Joyce Industry, and Beyond

Michael Walsh

Popular Sources and Paradigms

4. Should Boys Have Sweethearts?

Chester G. Anderson

5. Molly Bloom and Lady Hester Stanhope

Michael H. Begnal

6. "Nothing for a Woman in That"—James Lowebirch and Masochistic Fantasy in "Ulysses"

Stephen Watt

7. Dr. J. Collins Looks at J. J.: The Invention of a Shaun

David Hayman.

The Context of Culture

8. Wilde About Joyce

Zack Bowen

9. The (Tom) Swiftean Comedy of "Scylla and Charybdis"

Thomas Jackson Rice

10. Advertising and Religion in James Joyce's Fiction: The New (Improved) Testament

Garry M. Leonard

11. Joyce's Techno-Poetics of Artifice: Machines, Media, Memory and Modes of Communication in "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake"

Donald Theall

Joyce in Popular Culture

12. Appropriating the Master Appropriator: "The James Joyce Murder" as Feminist Critique

Helene Meyers

13. James Joyce as Woman: Fionnula Flanagan, Joyce and Film

Adrian Peever

14. Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses: Goddess or Postcultural Cyborg?

Richard Brown

15. The Joycean Unconscious, or Getting Respect in the Real World

Vincent J. Cheng

Notes

Contributors

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

Joyce not only used popular culture, he contributed to it. These essays employ a variety of critical techniques to bring out his involvement in the popular culture of his time. Treating all of Joyce's work from Dubliners through Finnegan's Wake, they question the conventional idea that popular culture is the inverse of modernist high art, showing instead how popular culture intertwines with modernist (and postmodernist) art. In a general historical introduction, R.B. Kershner looks at the entire question of Joyce and popular cutlure within the context of Joyce criticism and the cultural studies movement.

JJBN: NEWMAN-1996

Newman, Robert, editor. Pedagogy, Praxis, Ulysses: Using Joyce's Text to Transform the Classroom. U of Michigan P, 1996. 

CONTENTS

Illustrations - ix

Introduction

Robert Newman - I

I. BEGINNINGS, NARRATIVES, IDENTITIES - 7

"In the buginning is the woid": Opening Lines and the Protocols of Reading

Michael patrick Gillespie - 9

Ulysses and the Preemptive Power of Plot

Kevin J. H. Dettmar - 21

Teaching Joyce Teaching Kristeva: Estrangement in the Modern World

Carol Shloss - 47

Bread and Wine, Coke and Peanuts: Teaching Sacrificial Feasts

Margaret Mills Harper - 63

2. CIVILIZATION AND ITS (DIS)CONTEXTS - 77

Theater of the Mind: "Circe" and Avant-Garde Form

Margot Norris - 79

Women in Rooms, Women in History

Susan Shaw Sailer - 97

Teaching Freud through "Nausicaa"

Brian W. Shaffer - 121

3. IDEOLOGY AND VOICE - 133

Decolonizing Literature: Ulysses and the Postcolonial Novel in English

M. Keith Booker - 135

Teaching Howards End through Ulysses through Bakhtin

R. Brandon Kershner - 153

Dialogic Monologue, or Divided Discourse in Ulysses and Othello

Sheldon Brivic - 167

4. VISUALIZING PEDAGOGY - 179

Reading the Text of Ulysses, "Reading" Other "Texts": Representation and the Limits of Visual and Verbal Narratives

Roy Gottfried - 181

Ulysses, Cubism, and MTV

Archie K. Loss - 195

Discovering Body Tropes through Ulysses

Robert Newman - 207

5. CLASSIFICATION AND INVENTION - 223

"Cyclops," "Sirens," and the Myths of Multicultural Modernism

Craig Werner - 225

Ulysses, Order, Myth: Classification and Modern Literature

E. P. Walkiewicz - 241

The Heuretics of Odyssey: Ulysses in Florida

Gregory L. Ulmer - 253

Contributors - 267

ABOUT THE BOOK

Much theoretical debate has occurred about James Joyce's Ulysses as a model for reading. Critics often cite it as the ideal writerly text, where, according to Barthes, the reader becomes actively involved in producing meaning rather than a mere consumer of words. Post-structuralist, Marxist, and feminist theorists variously see the novel as the place to discover the infinite deferral of understanding, the polyphonic text that liberates the reader from narrow ideological meaning, or the work that undercuts prevalent psychoanalytical notions of language and offers new interpretive strategies. In many ways, Ulysses is a chameleon text, accommodating multiple interpretations while permitting infinite possibilities for discovery.

Pedagogy, Praxis, Ulysses approaches Joyce's novel not simply as a text to be examined, but as a touchstone to generate theoretical and practical ideas for innovation in teaching. The collection employs Ulysses as a springboard for thought- provoking questions about how we read, learn, and teach--and about how new, open-minded approaches to pedagogy can communicate to students the value of interpreting as a strategy of survival, and questioning as a vital technique for experiencing life.

Contributors to the volume are M. Keith Booker, Sheldon Brivic, Kevin Dettmar, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Roy Gottfried, Margaret Mills Harper, R. Brandon Kershner, Archie Loss, Patrick Lynch, Robert Newman, Margot Norris, Jörg Rademacher, Susan Shaw Sailer, Brian Schaffer, Carol Schloss, Gregory Ulmer, E. P. Walkiewicz, Craig Werner, and Jennifer Wicke.  

JJBN: KLEIN-1994

Klein, Scott. The Fiction of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design. Cambridge UP, 1994.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction: opposition and representation

1. The tell-tale Eye

2. The mirror and the razor

3. The cracked looking-glass of the master

4. Minds of the anti-collaborators

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography 

Index 

ABOUT THE BOOK

The literary relationship of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis has previously been described in merely biographical terms. In The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis Scott W. Klein takes Wyndham Lewis's criticism of Ulysses in Times and Western Man and Joyce's implicit response to Lewis in Finnegans Wake as an emblematic opposition signalling significant textual relations within and between the fictions of the two authors. The seeing eye and the world, the creating mind and fiction, language and its aesthetic and political object, and the processes of history: all appear in the work of both Joyce and Lewis, as related thematic structures that raise questions about binarism, dialectic, and the reconciliation of opposites. Detailed examination of key texts by Joyce and Lewis reveals affiliations between the two writers, and offers insight into the politics and aesthetics of modernism.

• Explores the textual relationship between Wyndham Lewis and James Joyce
• Revises our understanding of the work of both authors, but particularly Joyce's Finnegans Wake
• Offers an insight into aesthetics and politics in literary modernism

JJBN: KNOWLES-1999

Knowles, Sebastian, editor. Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce. Garland Publishing, 1999.

CONTENTS

Abbreviations

Editorial Conventions

List of Figures

Series Editor's Foreword Daniel Albright

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Sebastian D. G. Knowles

PART I Bronze: Music

Section 1: Joyce's Musical Background

Chapter 1: James Joyce and Dublin Opera, 1888-1904

Seamus Reilly

Chapter 2: Joyce's Trieste: Città Musicalissima

John McCourt

Section 2: Joyce and His Contemporaries

Chapter 3: Chamber Music: Words and Music Lovingly Coupled

Myra T. Russel

Chapter 4: "Mr. Bloom and the Cyclops": Joyce and Antheil's Unfinished "Opéra Mécanique"

Paul Martin

Chapter 5: Opus Posthumous: James Joyce, Gottfried Keller, Othmar Schoeck, and Samuel Barber

Sebastian D. G. Knowles

Section 3: Contemporary Music and Joyce

Chapter 6: The Euphonium Cagehaused in Either Notation: John Cage and Finnegans Wake

Scott W. Klein

Chapter 7: Davies, Berio, and Ulysses

Murat Eyuboglu

PART II Gold: Text

Section 1: Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Chapter 8: Noise, Music, Voice, Dubliners

Allan Hepburn

Chapter 9: The Distant Music of the Spheres

Thomas Jackson Rice

Section 2: Ulysses

Chapter 10: Bronze by Gold by Bloom: Echo, the Invocatory

Drive, and the 'Aurteur' in "Sirens"

Susan Mooney

Chapter 11: Strange Words, Strange Music: The Verbal Musicof "Sirens"

Andreas Fischer

Chapter 12: Mining the Ore of "Sirens": An Investigation of Structural Components

Margaret Rogers

Chapter 13: "Circe," La Gioconda, and the Opera House of the Mind

John Gordon

Section 3: Finnegans Wake

Chapter 14: Parsing Persse: The Codology of Hosty's Song

Zack Bowen and Alan Roughley

Chapter 15: Synthesizing "The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly"

Daniel J. Schiff

JJBN: HENKE-1990

Henke, Suzette A. James Joyce and the Politics of Desire. Routledge, 1990.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Defusing the Patriarchal Can(n)on

1. Through a Cracked Looking-Glass: Desire and Frustration in Dubliners 

2. Stephen Dedalus and Women: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Narcissist

3. Interpreting Exiles: The Aesthetics of Unconsummated Desire

4. Uncoupling Ulysses: Joyce’s New Womanly Man

5. Molly Bloom: The Woman’s Story

6. Reading Finnegans Wake: The Feminiairity which Breathes Content Ricorso: Anna Livia Plurabelle and Ecriture Feminine

Notes

Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

This title, first published in 1990, offers a feminist and psychoanalytic reassessment of the Joycean canon in the wake of Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva. The author centres her discussion of Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist, Finnegans Wake, and Exiles around questions of desire and language and the politics of sexual difference.

Suzette Henke’s radical "re-vision" of Joyce’s work is a striking example of the crucial role feminist theory can play in contemporary evaluation of canonical texts. As such it will be welcomed by feminists and students of literature alike.

JJBN: WILLIAMS-1997

Williams, Trevor L. Reading Joyce Politically. UP of Florida, 1997.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Trevor Williams takes as his starting point Joyce's assertion that Dublin was a "paralyzed city". He identifies those power structures within its civil society and private relationships - so clearly drawn by Joyce in Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses—that lie at the heart of that paralysis. More importantly, however, Williams shows how in Joyce the paralysis is always provisional, and explores the ways in which Joyce's characters do indeed demonstrate means of resistance to the British state, to class distinctions, to clerical hegemony and to power imbalances in familial and sexual relationships. In the process, Williams reviews the early criticism levelled against Joyce by the left, in particular by the First Congress of Soviet Writers in 1934. He also engages contemporary Joyce critics, including Frederic Jameson, Franco Moretti and Terry Eagleton, many of whom have attempted to redress the leftist attacks on Joyce and to demonstrate his relevance to a postcolonial critical approach. Williams's reading of Joyce draws from the "humanist" tradition of Marxism and from contemporary feminist theory in what is ultimately a blend of theory and close textual reading.

JJBN: SVEVO-1990

Svevo, Livia. Memoir of Italo Svevo, translated by Isabel Quigly. Marlboro P, 1990.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The writer Italo Svevo had many things in common with other writers: a long struggle for recognition; a mutually respectful friendship with a noteworthy author (in Svevo's case, James Joyce); and a long list of neuroses. His choice of a wife, however, was anything but common. Livia Veneziani Svevo tirelessly worked on her husband's behalf after his tragic early death and also penned this remarkable portrait of a serious artist and a loving (if quirky) marriage. Memoir of Italo Svevo illuminates its subject's darkly comic novels, telling the story of how a successful businessman in his middle age, obsessed with smoking as much as his abandoned literary ambitions, somehow became one of the great authors of the twentieth century.

JJBN: BRADY&CARENS-1998

Brady, Philip and James E. Carens, editor. Critical Essays on James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. G. K. Hall, 1998.

CONTENTS

General Editor's Note Publisher's Note

Introduction

PHILIP BRADY AND JAMES F. CARENS

CRITICAL CRUXES

Introduction to Stephen Hero

THEODORE SPENCER

Joyce and the Epiphany: The Key to the Labyrinth?

ROBERT SCHOLES

[Stephen's Diary: The Shape of Life]

MICHAEL LEVENSON

The Villanelle Perplex: Reading Joyce

ROBERT ADAMS DAY

[The Aesthetics of Stephen's Aesthetic]

CORDELL D. K. YEE

The Genesis of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

HANS WALTER GABLER

STRUCTURE, IMAGE, SYMBOL, MYTH

[Joyce's Portrait and Flaubert's L'Education Sentimentale]

DAVID HAYMAN

[A Slow and Dark Birth: A Study of the Organization]

SIDNEY FESHBACH

The Portrait as Portrait: Joyce and Impressionism

MAURICE BEEBE

[Davin's "Strange Woman" and Her Biblical Prototypes]

NEHAMA ASCHKENASY

[Daedalus and the Bird Girl: Classical Text and Celtic Subtext]

F. L. RADFORD

The Art of the Labyrinth

DIANE FORTUNA

THE IMPACT OF THEORY

[Reading Acts, Reading Warrants, and Reading Responses]

JAMES J. SOSNOSKI

The Artist as Text: Dialogism and Incremental Repetition in Portrait

R. B. KERSHNER

Riddles, Silence, and Wonder: Joyce and Wittgenstein Encountering the Limits of Language

THOMAS C. SINGER

[The Strength and Sorrow of Young Stephen: The Dialectic of Harmony and Dissonance]

MICHAEL BRUCE MCDONALD

Framing, Being Framed, and the Janus Faces of Authority

VICKI MAHAFFEY

Index

JJBN: SCHOLES-1992

Scholes, Robert. In Search of James Joyce. U of Illinois P, 1992. 

CONTENTS

Introduction 1

1. Stephen Dedalus: Eiron and Alazon 7

2. Textual Matters 16

Some Observations on the Text of Dubliners 17

Further Observations on the Text of Dubliners 34

Book Review: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 52

3. Joyce and the Epiphany: The Key to the Labyrinth? 59

4. Stephen Dedalus, Poet or Aesthete? 70

5. James Joyce, Irish Poet 82

6. Joyce and Symbolism 100

7. Counterparts 109

8. Ulysses: A Structuralist Perspective 117

9. In Search of James Joyce 129

10. Semiotic Approaches to a Fictional Text: Joyce's "Eveline" 144

11. x/y Joyce and Modernist Ideology 161

12. In the Brothel of Modernism: Picasso and Joyce 178

Index 209

ABOUT THE BOOK

As Robert Scholes explains in his introduction, this volume is "a record of prolonged engagement with the riddle of Joyce." Beginning with his 1961 essay on Stephen Dedalus and moving chronologically to an impor- tant new essay on Joyce and Picasso, the book gradually reveals two stories: one of the author's evolving critical perspective on Joyce, and another about the changes in critical methods in literary study over three decades. Because each chapter begins with a new headnote situating the topic and Scholes's approach to it in relation to his own work and to the critical climate of the day, the sequencing alone contributes much to an understanding of the recent history of Joyce criticism. The essays detail the progress of an adventurous and flexible critic from an early New Critical wish to read Joyce's work as the product of a single extraordinary mind, through structural and semiotic approaches to the Joycean text, to essays that draw on a wider learning to locate Joyce and his work in the social and political context of modern cultural studies.