De-familiarizing readings : essays from the Austin Joyce conference

108 Pages·2010·1.39 MB·English

by  Joyce

De-familiarizing Readings
EUROPEAN JOYCE STUDIES
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General Editor: Fritz Senn
Associate Editor: Christine van Boheemen
De-familiarizing Readings
Essays from the Austin Joyce Conference
Edited by
Alan W. Friedman
and
Charles Rossman
Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009
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Second Edition: 2010
ISBN: 978-90-420-3237-8
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©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam – New York, NY 2009
Printed in The Netherlands
For David G. Wright, eminent Joycean,
whose untimely death occurred while we were editing these papers.
CONTENTS
Bibliographical Note 3
Introduction
Alan W. Friedman and Charles Rossman 5
Dubliners:
“Guttapercha things”: Contraception, Desire,
and Miscommunication in “The Dead”
Tara Prescott 9
Joyce in Blackface: Goloshes, Gollywoggs
and Christy Minstrels in “The Dead”
Susan J. Adams 22
A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man:
Dating Stephen’s Diary: When Does 32
A Portrait of the Artist End?
David G. Wright
Ulysses:
Is Bella Cohen Jewish? What’s in a Name? 43
Austin Briggs
Stephen Dedalus’s Anti-Semitic Ballad:
A Sabotaged Climax in Joyce’s Ulysses
Margot Norris 54
Finnegans Wake:
The Shakespearean Demiurge in Joyce’s Forge 76
Stephen Whittaker
Playing the Square Circle: Musical Form
and Polyphony in the Wake
Alan Shockley 90
Notes on Contributors 102
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
In keeping with previous volumes in this series, the following standard
abbreviations are used for parenthetical citations and other references within
the texts:
CW James Joyce, The Critical Writings of James Joyce. Ed. Ellsworth
Mason and Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1959.
D James Joyce, Dubliners: Text, Criticism and Notes. Ed. Robert Scholes
and A. Walton Litz. New York: Viking Press, 1969.
FW James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. London: Faber, 1939.
JJQ James Joyce Quarterly, published by the University of Tulsa; Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
Letters I, II, III James Joyce, Letters of James Joyce. Volume I, ed. Stuart
Gilbert. New York: Viking Press, 1957. Volumes II and III, ed.
Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1966.
P James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ed. Chester G.
Anderson. New York: Viking Press, 1968.
SL James Joyce, Selected Letters of James Joyce. Ed. Richard Ellmann.
New York: Viking Press, 1975.
U James Joyce, Ulysses. Ed. Hans Walter Gabler. New York
and London: Garland, 1986. Cited by episode and line number.
INTRODUCTION
ALAN W. FRIEDMAN AND CHARLES ROSSMAN
“Joyce in Austin,” the 2007 annual James Joyce Bloomsday conference,
provided validation that Joyce studies (commonly known as “The Joyce
Industry”) remain alive and well, if somewhat differently configured than
they have been in recent years. For the past quarter century or so, Joyce and
other literary studies have been highly, though hardly exclusively, theoretical
and ideological—deconstructive, feminist, post-colonial, psychological,
political.1 But they have lately become more solidly grounded in the “stuff”
of texts, contexts, and intertexts: data and dates, food and clothing, letters and
journals, literary allusions, and other quotidian desiderata. Successful
inductive approaches, like the staging of a perfectly scripted legal case, must
be thoroughly researched, argued with meticulous, even nit-picking,
precision, and reach a persuasive conclusion that somehow seems both
striking and inevitable. This legal analogy is particularly apt given the
welcome outcome of the copyright abuse lawsuit against the Joyce estate
approximately a month before the conference. Carol Shloss’s quoting from
and citing such unpublished sources as medical records and letters in Lucia
Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, Shloss’s biography of Joyce’s daughter Lucia,
ran afoul of the Joyce Estate. What the legal decision on the suit clearly and
precisely documents is the significance of this case and its outcome that
allows and encourages scholars to pursue their research and to document the
results of their forensic inquiries. Although a settlement unlike a judgment
technically sets no precedent, the case should positively impact all future
dealings with the Joyce estate and with the issue of fair use generally. It is the
stuff of future studies.
1. See, for example, Christine Froula, Modernism’s Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1996); Vicki Mahaffey, Reauthorizing Joyce
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988); Margot Norris, Joyce’s Web: The
Social Unraveling of Modernism (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992); Jean-
Michel Rabaté, Joyce upon the Void: The Genesis of Doubt (New York: St Martin’s
Press, 1991); Alan Roughley, Reading Derrida Reading Joyce (Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 1999); and Luke Thurston, James Joyce and the Problem
of Psychoanalysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).