... fictive representation,”Bell writes, “its excesses be- come splendidly inventive pirouettes, a dazzling and daring performance” (p. 4). To this day there lingers in some dim quarters the conviction that UZysses is a practical joke. In a sense, Bell agrees, and so did Joyce, who characterized...

... pp. $42.95. Both of these books view canonical works of modernism through the lens of current critical theory and query the premises and practices of New Criti- cism. The Politics of Narration:James Joyce, William Faulknet; and Virgania Woo& is a highly provocative, eminently readable book...

... Research Group on Architecture, Urbanism, and Theory at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent book is Chaucerian Theatricality (1990). Rpyimi Essay Recent Studies on Literature, Architecture, and Urbanism John M. Ganim Architecturv and the Ext: The crypts of Joyce...

.... PAULDELANY Simon Fraser University The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity From Dickens to Joyce. By PHILIPM. WEINSTEIN.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xiv + 310 pp. $32.50. One of the many pleasures in reading this fine study of the nineteenth...

... JOYCE* By ROBERTH. BELL Most readers of Ulysses, even many of those who emphasize its comedy, are extremely wary of Buck Mulligan.l Entering the novel via A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, one naturally assumes Stephen’s...

...Benjamin Nyce Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 JOYCE CARY’S POLITICAL TRILOGY THE ATMOSPHERE OF POWER By BENJAMINNYCE In To Be a Pilgrim, the second novel of Joyce Cary’s first trilogy...

...Haskell M. Block Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 JAMES JOYCE AND THOMAS HARDY By HASKELLM. BLOCK We do not normally think of the work of James Joyce as in any way related to that of Thomas Hardy. For Joyce had little regard...

... Wordsworth of Natural Supernaturalism. Bewell’s road to Wordsworth is well lit and accessible, and it leads us far into the haunt and main region of Wordsworth’s song. DON BIALOSTOSKY University of Toledo Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature...

...James R. Baker JAMES JOYCE : AFFIRMATION AFTER EXILE By JAMES R. BAKER Nay, shall not such as these have part, because of that high, original purpose which remembering painfully or by way of prophecy they would make clear, in the continual affirmation...

... and the interpretation of the novel’s character-system as a population. Network analyses of three highly populous works—Charles Dickens’s Bleak House , James Joyce’s Ulysses , and David Simon’s HBO series The Wire —yield measures of social density and character centrality that show how Joyce adapted a Dickensian network...

...Beth Blum This essay uses “self-help” guides to James Joyce as an occasion to illuminate the buried history of modernism’s engagement with popular morality. It suggests that the birth of Joyce’s aesthetic—and, by extension, of modernism more broadly—is attributable to early twentieth-century...

...Joseph Prescott Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ∗ Submitted August 29, 1940. HOMER’S ODYSSEY AND JOYCE’S ULYSSES” By JOSEPH PRESCQTT In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, in large measure the log of Joyce‘s early...

...John S. Hunt Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 SUNDERING AND RECONCILIATION THE AESTHETIC THEORY OF JOYCE’S “SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS” By JOHN S. HUNT “-1 hope Mr Dedalus will work out his theory...

... of in chapter 3 (“Varieties of Kornantic Experience and triumphantly enunciates in the “Conclusion .” MAXF. SCHULZ University of Southern Callfornia A Scrupulous Meanness: A Study of Joyce’s Early Work. By EDWARDBRAN...

...Shiv K. Kumar Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1959 JOYCE’S EPIPHANY AND BERGSON’S “L’INTUITION PHILOSOPHIQUE” By SHIVK. KUMAR Stuart Gilbert, in his essay “Art and Intuition,” quotes Wildon Carr’s definition of intuition...

...Joseph Prescott Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 * Manuscript submitted December 28, 1948. Unless otherwise indicated, all references to Ulysses are to the Modern Library edition. NOTES ON JOYCE’S ULYSSES* By JOSEPH PRESCOTT...

...Douglas A. Joyce Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 SOME USES OF IRONY IN HOFMANNSTHAL’S DER SCH WIERIGE By DOUGLASA. JOYCE A close reading of Hofmannsthal’s Der Schwierige suggests that what gives this comedy its...

...Joyce Wexler In 1929 Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz was not only compared to Ulysses but also hailed as a prime example of the postwar movement called magic realism. This junction led directly to landmark magic realist texts by Günter Grass, Gabriel García Márquez, and Salman Rushdie...

...Joyce N. Megay Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 ∗ I wish to express my gratitude to Henri Bonnet and Maurice Paz for their help during my research, and to Inge Worth for editorial assistance. ELIE RABIER AN UNKNOWN SOURCE...

...Adam Barrows The fantasy of turning back the clock by journeying eastward across what we today call the International Date Line appears in the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, and James Joyce, all of whom create characters who make, or contemplate making, such time-defying...