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By showing Joyce's continued relevance to literary scholarship in the new century, Twenty-First Joyce previews the future of James Joyce studies. The essays feature Joycean takes on various types of literary criticism, including linguistics, comparative studies, translation, and aesthetics. Some of the foremost Joycean scholars provide particularly strong examples of the value of cultural and comparative studies brought to bear on his work, and they demonstrate the extent to which James Joyce has affected and influenced our cultural, political, historical, social, and artistic awareness in the past century and his relevance and significance for the present.
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Twenty-First Joyce
Edited by Ellen Carol Jones and Morris Beja
university press of florida
Twenty-First Joyce The Florida James Joyce Series
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers Florida International University, Miami Florida State University, Tallahassee New College of Florida, Sarasota University of Central Florida, Orlando University of Florida, Gainesville University of North Florida, Jacksonville University of South Florida, Tampa University of West Florida, Pensacola
Twenty-First Joyce Edited by Ellen Carol Jones and Morris Beja
University Press of Florida Gainesville/Tallahassee/Tampa/Boca Raton Pensacola/Orlando/Miami/Jacksonville/Ft. Myers/Sarasota
Copyright 2004 by Ellen Carol Jones and Morris Beja All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Twenty-first Joyce / edited by Ellen Carol Jones and Morris Beja. p. cm.—(The Florida James Joyce series) Include bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8130-3584-0 (eBook) 1. Joyce, James, 1882–1941—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Ireland— In literature. 1. Jones, Ellen Carol. II. Beja, Morris. III. Series. PR6019.O9Z846 2004 823'.912—dc22 2004055479 The University Press of Florida is the scholarly publishing agency for the State University System of Florida, comprising Florida A&M University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida International University, Florida State University, New College of Florida, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, University of North Florida, University of South Florida, and University of West Florida. University Press of Florida 15 Northwest 15th Street Gainesville, FL 32611-2079 http://www.upf.com
For Zack Bowen
Contents
Foreword ix Zack Bowen List of Abbreviations xi Nacheinander, Nebeneinander: The Joyce Centuries 1 Ellen Carol Jones and Morris Beja The Same People in the Same Place—or Different Places: Cultural Studies, History, Nationalism, and Transnationalism
”A Regular Swindle”: The Failure of Gifts in Dubliners 13 Mark Osteen Joyce’s Sacred Heart Attack: Exposing the Church’s Imperialist Organ 36 Mary Lowe-Evans States of Memory: Reading History in “Wandering Rocks” 56 Anne Fogarty Cyclopean Anglophobia and Transnational Community: Re-reading the Boxing Matches in Joyce’s Ulysses 82 Richard Brown The True Story of Jumbo the Elephant 97 Sebastian D. G. Knowles Time Travel on Wings of Excess: “Ithaca” and a Message in a Bottle 112 John Rocco Dagger Definitions: Translation and Language
Joyce en slave / Joyce Enclave: The Joyce of Maciej Słomczyn´ski—A Tribute 137 Jolanta W. Wawrzycka The Rebirth of Heroism from Homer’s Odyssey to Joyce’s Ulysses 157 Keri Elizabeth Ames
The Incertitude of the Void: Modernist Narrative
Shocking the Reader in “A Painful Case” 181 Margot Norris Joyce and the Origins of Modernism: . . . What Is Not Said in “Telemachus” 202 Morton P. Levitt Condoms, Conrad, and Joyce 219 Thomas