De-familiarizing Readings: Essays from the Austin Joyce Conference. (European Joyce Studies)

121 Pages·2009·1.07 MB·English

by  Charles Rossman

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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ISBN: 978-90-420-2570-7
©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:

(De)pressing the Reader: Journalism and
Joyce’s “A Painful Case”
Adam Putz 9

“Guttapercha things”: Contraception, Desire,
and Miscommunication in “The Dead”
Tara Prescott 20

Joyce in Blackface: Goloshes, Gollywoggs
and Christy Minstrels in “The Dead”
Susan J. Adams 33

A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man:

Dating Stephen’s Diary: When Does
A Portrait of the Artist End?
David G. Wright 43

Ulysses:

Is Bella Cohen Jewish? What’s in a Name?
Austin Briggs 54

Stephen Dedalus’s Anti-Semitic Ballad:
A Sabotaged Climax in Joyce’s Ulysses
Margot Norris 65

Finnegans Wake:

The Shakespearean Demiurge in Joyce’s Forge
Stephen Whittaker 87
Playing the Square Circle: Musical Form
and Polyphony in the Wake
Alan Shockley 101

Notes on Contributors 113
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.