Morris Beja

Anne Fogarty

June 16, 2004, was the one hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday, the day that James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place. To celebrate the occasion, thousands took to the streets in Dublin, following in the footsteps of protagonist Leopold Bloom. The event also was marked by the Bloomsday 100 Symposium, where world-renowned scholars discussed Joyce's seminal work. This volume contains the best, most provocative readings of Ulysses presented at the conference. The contributors to this volume urge a close engagement with the novel. They offer readings that focus variously on the materialist, historical, and political dimensions of Ulysses. The diversity of topics covered include nineteenth-century psychology, military history, Catholic theology, the influence of early film and music hall songs on Joyce, the post-Ulysses evolution of the one-day novel, and the challenge of discussing such a complex work amongst the sea of extant criticism.

Essays on Ulysses

Bloomsday 100

Director, writer, producer, and actor, Orson Welles (1915-1985) was an artist both of considerable achievement. His Citizen Kane inspired generations of film-makers worldwide. This collection, which concentrates on Welles' contributions to film history, begins with a selection of key film reviews, including those for Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Stranger, Othello, Touch of Evil, and The Trail . Two interviews, one with Welles himself and one with Charlton Heston on Welles, add to the portrait of man and artist. Eighteen essays commissioned for this volume, by such critic-scholars as Andre Bazin, David Bordwell, Laura Mulvey, Robert Carringer, James Naremore, and director Henry Jaglon, address a wide range of issues, from Welles' use of sound to his abilities as actor/director.

Perspectives on Orson Welles

David Norris

Dublin, of course, is the subject as perceived and portrayed by the eye of her native son, but also the site of the June 1992 international symposium at which the 28 essays were presented. They cover general aspects, hostile responses to Joyce, male feminisms, the shorter works, Aeolus without wind, and the novels. The specific topics include narrativity in Finnegan's Wake, the number of triangles a writer can make out of four characters taking two at a time, monologue as monologic, Lawrence as an enemy of Joyce, and Celtism. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Essays

Joyce in the Hibernian Metropolis

Shari Benstock

Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium

Coping with Joyce

"Ulysses is always lauded as one of western culture's most important books. This collection of essays re-asserts the worth and vitality of Joyce's monumental text, not because it is challenging but because it speaks so powerfully to significant present-day issues: anti-Semitism, film, melodrama, fashion, photography, silenced women, advertising, and more."--Jennifer Fraser, author of Rite of Passage in the Narratives of Dante and Joyce June 16, 2004, was the one hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday, the day that James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place. To celebrate the occasion, thousands took to the streets in Dublin, following in the footsteps of protagonist Leopold Bloom. The event also was marked by the Bloomsday 100 Symposium, where world-renowned scholars discussed Joyce's seminal work. This volume contains the best, most provocative readings of Ulysses presented at the conference. The contributors to this volume urge a close engagement with the novel. They offer readings that focus variously on the materialist, historical, and political dimensions of Ulysses. The diversity of topics covered include nineteenth-century psychology, military history, Catholic theology, the influence of early film and music hall songs on Joyce, the post-Ulysses evolution of the one-day novel, and the challenge of discussing such a complex work amongst the sea of extant criticism.

Critical Essays on Virginia Woolf

A Casebook

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

Epiphany in the Modern Novel

This series of books offers accounts of the literary careers of widely read British and Irish authors. Volumes follow the outline of the writers' working lives tracing the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing. This book is about the Irish author James Joyce.

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