Joyceana – The Secret Gnomonclature.
Review: “The Secret Gnomonclature of James Joyce’s ‘The Sisters’ Revisited.” Joyceana – The Secret Gnomonclature. Tagged: Dubliners, James Joyce, writing
View ArticleThe James Joyce Centre, Dublin presents Ulysses.
Episode I TELEMACHUS Presented by David Norris Episode II NESTOR Presented by Caroline Elbay Episode III PROTEUS Presented by David Norris Episode IV CALYPSO Presented by Maite Lopez Episode V LOTUS...
View ArticleFour short video clips for those who don’t quite get it just yet: why James...
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View ArticleDubliners at 100 – The Greene Space.
Now that your appetite for Joyce has been whetted by the last blog post, here’s the Want to Know More? critical link: Dubliners at 100 – The Greene Space. (Hint: click on it. Definitely.) Tagged:...
View ArticleUlysses: A Few Thoughts on Scylla and Charybdis.
N.B. I’d planned to post this as a comment on a friend’s site, but apparently my comment is too long. So I’ll just blog it here, and post a link to this blog posting on his site. Check him out here. A...
View ArticleJames Joyce in your pocket.
I readily admit I wasn’t expecting too much from this little green paperback about James Joyce and his fiction; it’s a booklet of only 89 pages after all, plus end material, and it’s so small I could...
View ArticleJames Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical Essays (Hart and Hayman, Eds.)
A few years ago some Twitter wit, I forget whom, suggested that the eighteen episodes comprising James Joyce’s Ulysses might be conceived of as more-or-less independent scrolls; that the compounded...
View ArticleJames Joyce: The Critical Writings (Mason and Ellmann, Eds.).
The first thing to know about this book is that its title is deceptive. A collection of 57 essays written by James Joyce between c1896 and 1937, it’s not so much “critically-important” reading for...
View ArticlePlotting Against James Joyce
If someone recommends a novel to you, what’s the first question you ask? “What’s it about?” Nothing wrong with that. Still, it’s interesting that we don’t ask first about genre, or about characters, or...
View ArticleThe Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (1st Ed.).
Facts are one thing; the language we use to mimic facts is another. Communication requires translation. This is true whether we transpose one language into another or whether we merely receive...
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