Author: Neil R. Davison Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 0813070295 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 293
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A forgotten historical figure and his influence on the writing of James Joyce In this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman (1853‒1903), a Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced James Joyce’s creation of the character of Leopold Bloom, as well as Ulysses’s broader themes surrounding race, nationalism, and empire. Using extensive archival research, Davison reveals parallels between the lives of Altman and Bloom, including how the experience of double marginalization—which Altman felt as both a Jew in Ireland and an Irishman in the British Empire—is a major idea explored in Joyce’s work. Altman, a successful salt and coal merchant, was involved in municipal politics over issues of Home Rule and labor, and frequently appeared in the press over the two decades of Joyce’s youth. His prominence, Davison shows, made him a familiar name in the Home Rule circles with which Joyce and his father most identified. The book concludes by tracing the influence of Altman’s career on the Dubliners story “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” as well as throughout the whole of Ulysses. Through Altman’s biography, Davison recovers a forgotten life story that illuminates Irish and Jewish identity and culture in Joyce’s Dublin. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles
Author: James Joyce Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 1775412067 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1023
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James Joyce's novel Ulysses is said to be one of the most important works in Modernist literature. It details Leopold Bloom's passage through Dublin on an ordinary day: June 16, 1904. Causing controversy, obscenity trials and heated debates, Ulysses is a pioneering work that brims with puns, parodies, allusions, stream-of-consciousness writing and clever structuring. Modern Library ranked it as number one on its list of the twentieth century's 100 greatest English-language novels and Martin Amis called it one of the greatest novels ever written.
Author: Ira Bruce Hadel Publisher: Springer ISBN: 134907652X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 303
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Nadel examines Joyce's identification with the dislocated Jew after his exodus from Ireland and analyzes the influence which Rabbinical hermeneutics and Judaic textuality had on his language. Biographical and historical information is used as well as Joyce's texts and critical theory.
Author: David Lewis Stone Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This dissertation attempts to extend the work of other scholars who have explored James Joyce's interest in Judaism (Ira Nadel's Joyce and the Jews, Neil Davison's James Joyce 'Ulysses' and the Construction of Jewish Identity and Marilyn Reizbaum's James Joyce's Judaic Other). I focus on aspects of his engagement with Jewish life and more especially the Jewish religion that have not received the attention they deserve by these and other scholars. To that end, I discuss his engagement with the tradition of ghetto-writing as found in German in the works of Leopold Sacher-Masoch and developed in English in those of Israel Zangwill. I offer the most detailed account to date of his knowledge of Jewish Biblical hermeneutics. Frederic Farrar's Life and Work of St. Paul (1879) is highlighted for the first time as an important source of Jewish knowledge for Joyce. The importance of midrashic hermeneutics to an understanding of Finnegans Wake and its notebooks, is discussed in detail. Particular attention is paid to his use of certain types of word play, gematriya, notarikon and multilingual punning. A particular preoccupation of this dissertation is Joyce's growing interest in Judaism and Jewish religious life as his career progressed. In exploring the reasons for this deepening engagement, I ask what Joyce's interest in Jewish festivals might tell us about his interest in ritual more generally. Here I draw on the work of the sociologist Emile Durkheim and the paediatrician turned psychoanalyst Donald Woods Winnicott. The references to Jewish religious observances, race and the rituals of Passover and Tabernacles in Joyce's latter works are discussed in the light of recent scholarship by a range of Joyceans, including Len Platt and Vincent Cheng.
Author: John Brannigan Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 0748640959 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 256
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This book sets out to expose through a combination of literary, cultural and historical analysis the fictive nature of Irish monoculturalism and to probe figurations of racial identity, racial difference, and foreignness in Irish culture.
Author: Margot Norris Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316483428 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 165
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Margot Norris' The Value of James Joyce explores the writings of James Joyce from his early poetry and short stories to his final avant-garde work, Finnegans Wake. His works include some of the most difficult and challenging texts in the English literary canon without diminishing his impressive popularity beyond the scope of academia. A democratic impulse may be counted as an important feature of this paradox: that Joyce's stylistic and linguistic experiments never lose their focus on a world of characters whose everyday activities comprise the stories of life in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, even as some of the most famous texts are given structures derived from Ancient Greek literature. The Value of James Joyce examines not only the significance of the ostensibly ordinary but the function of natural and urban spaces, classical and popular culture, and the moods, voice, and language that give Joyce's works their widespread appeal.
Author: John McCourt Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 9780299169800 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 340
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Since the publication of Richard Ellmann's James Joyce in 1959, Joyce has received remarkably little biographical attention. Scholars have chipped away at various aspects of Ellmann's impressive edifice but have failed to construct anything that might stand alongside it. The Years of Bloom is arguably the most important work of Joyce biography since Ellmann. Based on extensive scrutiny of previously unused Italian sources and informed by the author's intimate knowledge of the culture and dialect of Trieste, The Years of Bloom documents a fertile period in Joyce's life. While living in Trieste, Joyce wrote most of the stories in Dubliners, turned Stephen Hero into A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and began Ulysses. Echoes and influences of Trieste are rife throughout Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Though Trieste had become a sleepy backwater by the time Ellmann visited there in the 1950s, McCourt shows that the city was a teeming imperial port, intensely cosmopolitan and polyglot, during the approximately twelve years Joyce lived there in the waning years of the Habsburg Empire. It was there that Joyce experienced the various cultures of central Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. He met many Jews, who collectively provided much of the material for the character of Leopold Bloom. He encountered continental socialism, Italian Irredentism, Futurism, and various other political and artistic forces whose subtle influences McCourt traces with literary grace and scholarly rigour. The Years of Bloom, a rare landmark in the crowded terrain of Joyce studies, will instantly take its place as a standard work.
Author: Willard Potts Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292774281 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 232
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Uniting Catholic Ireland and Protestant Ireland was a central idea of the "Irish Revival," a literary and cultural manifestation of Irish nationalism that began in the 1890s and continued into the early twentieth century. Yet many of the Revival's Protestant leaders, including W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and John Synge, failed to address the profound cultural differences that made uniting the two Irelands so problematic, while Catholic leaders of the Revival, particularly the journalist D. P. Moran, turned the movement into a struggle for greater Catholic power. This book fully explores James Joyce's complex response to the Irish Revival and his extensive treatment of the relationship between the "two Irelands" in his letters, essays, book reviews, and fiction up to Finnegans Wake. Willard Potts skillfully demonstrates that, despite his pretense of being an aloof onlooker, Joyce was very much a part of the Revival. He shows how deeply Joyce was steeped in his whole Catholic culture and how, regardless of the harsh way he treats the Catholic characters in his works, he almost always portrays them as superior to any Protestants with whom they appear. This research recovers the historical and cultural roots of a writer who is too often studied in isolation from the Irish world that formed him.
Author: Philip Kitcher Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0190842261 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 281
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"Ulysses is a famously difficult book. Philosophy is well-known as an abstruse subject. Yet thinking about Joyce's great novel in philosophical ways not only provides new approaches for seasoned Joyceans, but also orientation for those perplexed by Ulysses. Six eminent scholars, philosophers and literary critics, combine philosophical and literary analysis to present accessible perspectives on one of the world's masterpieces"--
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