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Joyce in Trieste An Album of Risky Readings Edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles, Geert Lernout, and John McCourt university press of florida Joyce in Trieste The Florida James Joyce Series University Press of Florida 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 Joyce in Trieste An Album of Risky Readings Edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles, Geert Lernout, and John McCourt Foreword by Renzo Crivelli University Press of Florida Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa Boca Raton Pensacola Orlando Miami Jacksonville Ft. Myers Sarasota Copyright 2007 by Sebastian D. G. Knowles, Geert Lernout, and John McCourt Printed in the United States of America on recycled, acid-free paper All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International James Joyce Symposium (18th : 2002 : Trieste, Italy) Joyce in Trieste: an album of risky readings / edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles, Geert Lernout, and John McCourt; foreword by Renzo Crivelli. p. cm.—(The Florida James Joyce series) Includes bibliographical references and index. “The Trieste Symposium of 2002 is widely regarded among Joyceans as having had the best academic program of any International James Joyce Symposium since 1971, which was also held in Trieste”—Introduction. ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-3605-2 (alk. paper) 1. Joyce, James, 1882–1941—Criticism and interpretation—Congresses. I. Knowles, Sebastian, D. G. (Sebastian David Guy) II. Lernout, Geert, 1954– III. McCourt, John, 1965– IV. Title. PR6019.O9Z627 2002 823'.912–dc22 2006023149 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 Col- lege 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 In memory of Hugh Kenner (1923–2003) and Edward Said (1935–2003) whose readings showed us the way And trieste, ah trieste ate I my liver! Contents List of Illustrations ix Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 Sebastian D. G. Knowles I. Reading Joyce: Text, Meaning, and Language 1. The National Library of Ireland’s New Joyce Manuscripts 13 Michael Groden 2. Risky Reading of Risky Writing 36 Margot Norris 3. Plato, Homer, and Joyce: Involving Orientalism, a Smidgeon of Smut, and a Pinch of Perverse Egotism 54 Zack Bowen II. Text: Genetic Readings 4. Narrative as Potential: The Virus and the Program 67 André Topia 5. “Oxen of the Sun” and the Gestation of the Word 78 Nick De Marco 6. Dame Plurabelle: Joyce’s Art of Decomposition and Recombination 87 Dirk Van Hulle 7. “Negative Utopia” in James Joyce, Walter Benjamin, and Ernst Bloch 102 Hugo Azérad III. Meaning: Political Readings 8. Why Does Gerty Limp? 119 Vike Martina Plock 9. A “ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry”: Reading Nightmares of Orientalist History in Joyce’s Ulysses 131 Brian G. Caraher 10. “Nothing doing. Still an idea behind it”: The Restoration of Zion 150 Arye Kendi 11. Is There a Class to Renounce in This Text? Gentlemanly Ideology in A Portrait of the Artist 159 Borislav Knezevic 12. Buckley in a General Russia: Finnegans Wake and Political Space 170 Richard Robinson IV. Language: Joycean Readings 13. Jim the Comedian 191 Hugh Kenner 14. Breakfast at 7 Eccles Street: Oeufs Sacher-Masoch? 195 Austin Briggs 15. Molly’s Mediterranean Meals and Other Joycean Cuisines: An Essay with Recipes 210 Ira B. Nadel 16. Cinematic Joyce: Mediterranean Joyce 223 Carla Marengo Vaglio List of Contributors 241 Index 245 Illustrations Figures 8.1. “The Dawn of Freedom,” by Thomas Fitzpatrick 123 8.2. “Love’s Device” 125 Tables 1.1. Manuscripts for Ulysses as of Summer 2002 30 6.1. Chronology of the First Drafts of Sections I.4§2, I.5§2, and I.5§1, and Their Distribution over the Pages of Copybook BL 47471b 91 8.1. Showing by Provinces and Counties the Number of Unmarried, Married, and Widowed Females between the Ages of 15 and 45 Years in Ireland, on the 31st of March, 1901, and the Proportion Percent under Each Head 128
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