Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

273 Pages·2007·1.2 MB·English

by  Sebastian D. G. Knowles

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
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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
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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
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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