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...David Spurr Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 James Joyce's work has many folded documents, bodies, clothing, souls—and these objects often contain a mystery within their folds, literal and figurative. In the story “An Encounter,” the strange man met in a field at Ringsend tells...

...R. BRANDON KERSHNER GARRY LEONARD, Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 252 + xii, cloth, $ 49.95. JOSEPH VALENTE, ed. Quare Joyce (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 297, cloth, $47.50, paper, $19.95...

...R. BRANDON KERSHNER CHRISTY L. BURNS, Gestural Politics: Stereotype and Parody in Joyce (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000), pp. 224 + vii, cloth, $60.50, paper, $20.95. DEREK ATTRIDGE, Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

...JONATHAN E. GOLDMAN Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Works Cited Attridge , Derek . “Joyce and the Making of Modernism: The Question of Technique.” Rethinking Modernism . Ed. Marianne Thormählen. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 . 149 –59. Barthes , Roland...

...Robert Volpicelli Abstract Joseph Conrad and James Joyce share an interest in the aesthetic qualities of bad eyesight. Drawing on recent disability theory, this essay shows how Conrad and Joyce make use of disabled or “low” vision to initiate what I call weak narration, the tendency to prioritize...

...MICHAEL D. RUBENSTEIN Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Works Cited Attridge , Derek and Marjorie Howes, eds. Semicolonial Joyce . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000 . Attridge , Derek and Marjorie Howes, eds. “Introduction.” Attridge and Howes 1 –20. Benjamin , Walter...

...Sam Alexander This article proposes that the narratological problem of character in Joyce's Ulysses is inseparable from the biopolitical problem of population. More important than the presentation or ontological status of any individual character in Joyce's novel is the sheer number of characters...

...CHRISTY BURNS ALAN ROUGHLEY, Reading Derrida Reading Joyce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999), pp. 176, $49.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 1999 1999 Joyce's Significance for Derrida ALAN ROUGHLEY, Reading Derrida Reading Joyce (Gainesville: University...

...Marian Eide James Joyce's Ulysses is punctuated by bad jokes. While the novel is itself comedic, the scripted rhetoric of humor throughout the narrative fails, revealing fractures in an Irish community divided by shared colonial experience. Good jokes depend on both communal feeling...

...—Joyce's Ulysses , Pound's Cantos , Freud's Schreber case—at a moment when biological life was being reimagined through the optic of eugenic science and comparative anatomy. The essay extends Lee Edelman's critique of reproductive futurity in No Future to suggest that dystopic biological futures were being...

... display of female desire delivered at the conclusion of James Joyce's Ulysses by a sleepless Molly Bloom. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Benjamin , Walter . “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Illuminations . Ed. Arendt Hannah. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York...

... such as Samuel Beckett theorized a modernism without introspection. In his essays “Dante … Bruno … Vico … Joyce” (1929) and Proust (1930), Beckett argued that the psychological interiority of high modernist fiction could be attributed to nonmental and behavioristic causes. And in his novel Murphy (1936), he...

... House (1927) turns away from the possibilities explored by Lawrence, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Joyce, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald, seeking instead moments of aesthetic translucence, the overlay of one image, or one sound, on top of another. Such moments of overlay (or overtone) encapsulate the problem...

...LOIS CUCULLU COLLEEN LAMOS, Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 288, $59.95. VICKI MAHAFFEY, States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experiment (Oxford: Oxford...

.... Joyce shakes his head, chortles, muttering under his breath: Futureless futurists . . . then pats a poster on the nearby desk, tracing with admiring fingers the spokes of printed text in a mesmerizing spiral. Very clever, that one : Carrà's Interventionist Demonstration; could be Bloom's ad...

... modernist metropolitan and colonial sensibilities (6). The book’s four chapters examine fiction by James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Zoe¨ Wicomb, and Amit Chaudhuri to make the case that these writers uniquely confront the tedium of a dull existence—depicted through the claustrophobia of an unfalteringly...

... of the study, as well as its limitations, derive from the acuity of this central proposition, which provides for a thoughtful consideration of canonical modern- ist figures—literary and cinematic—including Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos. Refusing...

... an audience or win a competition. In The Poor Bugger’s Tool, Patrick R. Mullen points to an analogous form of queer labor at the heart of Irish literature and culture in the twentieth century. Mullen argues that the eclectic works he examines—by Oscar Wilde, J. M. Synge, Roger Casement, James Joyce...

... feminist historical novels in a not-yet-independent India. In one incredible anecdote, Joyce listens to his own son sing across the Atlantic from the United States. These intimacies and longings of the domestic, both as nation and family, are inscribed in the global Anglophone novel via radio. The maternal...

... cartographic encounters of Herman Mel- ville in Moby-Dick, James Joyce in Ulysses, and Thomas Pynchon in Gravity’s Rainbow. Read- ing them against each other allows Bulson to provide a major contribution to the cultural history of the novel. Each author was an avid map reader whose global imaginings relied...