James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) |
Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as ULYSSES (1922) and FINNEGANS WAKE (1939). During his career Joyce suffered from rejections from publishers, suppression by censors, attacks by critics, and misunderstanding by readers. From 1902 Joyce led a nomadic life, which perhaps reflected in his interest in the character of Odysseus. Although he spent long times in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zürich, with only occasional brief visit to Ireland, his native country remained basic to all his writings.
"But when the restraining influence of the school was at a distance I began to hunger again for wild sensations, for the escape which those chronicles of disorder alone seemed to offer me. The mimic warfare of the evening became at last as wearisome to me as the routine of school in the morning because I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad." (from Dubliners) James Joyce was born in Dublin as the son of John Stanislaus Joyce, impoverished gentleman, who had failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of professions, including politics and tax collecting. Joyce's mother, Mary Jane Murray, was ten years younger than her husband. She was an accomplished pianist, whose life was dominated by the Roman Catholic Church and her husband. In spite of the poverty, the family struggled to maintain solid middle-class facade.
From the age of six Joyce, was educated by Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, at Clane, and then at Belvedere College in Dublin (1893-97). Later the author thanked Jesuits for teaching him to think straight, although he rejected their religious instructions. At school he once broke his glasses and was unable to do his lessons. This episode was recounted in A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (1916). In 1898 he entered the University College, Dublin, where he found his early inspirations from the works of Henrik Ibsen, St.Thomas Aquinas and W.B. Yeats. Joyce's first publication was an essay on Ibsen's play When We Dead Awaken. It appeared in Fortnightly Review in 1900. At this time he began writing lyric poems.
After graduation in 1902 the twenty-year-old Joyce went to Paris, where he worked as a journalist, teacher and in other occupations in difficult financial conditions. He spent in France a year, returning when a telegram arrived saying his mother was dying. Not long after her death, Joyce was traveling again. He left Dublin in 1904 with Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid (they married in 1931), staying in Pola, Austria-Hungary, and in Trieste, which was the world’s seventh busiest port. Joyce gave English lessons and talked about setting up an agency to sell Irish tweed. Refused a post teaching Italian literature in Dublin, he continued to live abroad.
The Trieste years were nomadic, poverty-stricken, and productive. Joyce and Nora loved this cosmopolitan port city at the head of the Adriatic Sea, where they lived in a number of different addresses. During this period Joyce wrote most of DUBLINERS (1914), all of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the play, EXILES (1918), and large sections of Ulysses. Several of Joyce's siblings joined them, and two children, Giorgio and Lucia, were born. The children grew up speakin the Trieste dialect of Italian. Joyce and Nora stayed together althoug Joyce fell in love with Anny Schleimer, the daughter of an Austrian banker, and Roberto Prezioso, the editor of the newspaper Il Piccolo della Sera, tried to seduce Nora. After a short stint in Rome in 1906-07 as a bank clerk ended in illness, Joyce returned to Trieste.
In 1907 Joyce published a collection of poems, CHAMBER MUSIC. The title was suggested, as the author later stated, by the sound of urine tinkling into a prostitute's chamber pot. The poems have with their open vowels and repetitions such musical quality that many of them have been made into songs. "I have left my book, / I have left my room, / For I heard you singing / Through the gloom." Joyce himself had a fine tenor voice; he liked opera and bel canto.
In 1909 Joyce opened a cinema in Dublin, but this affair failed and he was soon back in Trieste, still broke and working as a teacher, tweed salesman, journalist and lecturer. In 1912 he was in Ireland, trying to persuade Maunsel & Co to fulfill their contract to publish Dubliners. The work contained a series of short stories, dealing with the lives of ordinary people, youth, adolescence, young adulthood, and maturity. The last story, 'The Dead', was adapted into screen by John Huston in 1987.
It was Joyce's last journey to his home country. However, he had became friends with Ezra Pound, who began to market his works. In 1916 appeared Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, an autobiographical novel. It apparently began as a quasi-biographical memoir entitled Stephen Hero between 1904 and 1906. Only a fragment of the original manuscript has survived. The book follows the life of the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, from childhood towards maturity, his education at University College, Dublin, and rebellion to free himself from the claims of family and Irish nationalism. Stephen takes religion seriously, and considers entering a seminary, but then also rejects Roman Catholicism. "-Look here, Cranly, he said. You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using my defence the only arms I allow myself to use - silence, exile, and cunning." At the end Stephen resolves to leave Ireland for Paris to encounter "the reality of experience". He wants to establish himself as a writer.
There once was a lounger named Stephen At the outset of the First World War, Joyce moved with his family to Zürich, where Lenin and the poet essayist Tristan Tzara had found their refuge. Joyce's WW I years with the legendary Russian revolutionary and Tzara, who founded the dadaist movement at the Cabaret Voltaire, provide the basis for Tom Stoppard's play Travesties (1974).
In Zürich Joyce started to develop the early chapters of Ulysses, which was first published in France, because of censorship troubles in the Great Britain and the United States, where the book became legally available 1933. The theme of jealousy was based partly on a story a former friend of Joyce told: he claimed that he had been sexually intimate with the author's wife, Nora, even while Joyce was courting her. Ulysses takes place on one day in Dublin (June 16, 1904) and reflected the classic work of Homer (fl. 9th or 8th century BC?).
The main characters are Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising canvasser, his wife Molly, and Stephen Dedalus, the hero from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. They are intended to be modern counterparts of Telemachus, Ulysses, and Penelope. Barmaids are the famous Sirens. One of the models for Bloom was Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), a novelist and businessman who was Joyce's student at the Berlitz school in Trieste. The story, using stream-of-consciousness technique, parallel the major events in Odysseus' journey home. However, Bloom's adventures are less heroic and his homecoming is less violent. Bloom makes his trip to the underworld by attending a funeral at Glasnevin Cemetary. "We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of air. Out of the fryingpan of life into the fire of purgatory." The paths of Stephen and Bloom cross and recross through the day. Joyce's technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology, history, and literature.
From 1917 to 1930 Joyce endured several eye operations, being totally blind for short intervals. (According to tradition, Homer was also blind.) In March 1923 Joyce started in Paris his second major work, Finnegans Wake, suffering at the same time chronic eye troubles caused by glaucoma. The first segment of the novel appeared in Ford Madox Ford's transatlantic review in April 1924, as part of what Joyce called Work in Progress.Wake occupied Joyce's time for the next sixteen years - its final version was completed late in 1938. A copy of the novel was present at Joyce's birthday celebration on February 1939.
Joyce's daughter Lucia, born in Trieste in 1907, became Carl Jung's patient in 1934. In her teens, she studied dance, and later The Paris Timespraised her skills as choreocrapher, linguist, and performer. With her father she collaborated in POMES PENYEACH (1927), for which she did some illustrations. Lucia's great love was Samuel Beckett, who was not interested in her. In the 1930s, she started to behave erratically. At the Burghölz psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where Jung worked, she was diagnosed schizophrenic. Joyce was left bitter at Jung's analysis of his daughter - Jung thought she was too close with her father's psychic system. In revenge, Joyce played in Finnegans Wake with Jung's concepts of Animus and Anima. Lucia died in a mental hospital in Northampton, England, in 1982.
After the fall of France in WWII, Joyce returned to Zürich, where he died on January 13, 1941, still disappointed with the reception of Finnegans Wake. The book was partly based on Freud's dream psychology, Bruno's theory of the complementary but conflicting nature of opposites, and the cyclic theory of history of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744).
Finnegans Wake was the last and most revolutionary work of the author. There is not much plot or characters to speak of - the life of all human experience is viewed as fragmentary. Some critics considered the work masterpiece, though many readers found it incomprehensible. "The only demand I make of my reader," Joyce once told an interviewer, "is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works." When the American writer Max Eastman asked Joyce why the book was written in a very difficult style, Joyce replied: "To keep the critics busy for three hundred years." The novel presents the dreams and nightmares of H.C.Earwicker (Here Comes Everywhere) and his family, the wife and mother Anna Livia Plurabelle, the twins Shem/Jerry and Shaun/Kevin, and the daughter Issy, as they lie asleep throughout the night. In the frame of the minimal central story Joyce experiments with language, combines puns and foreign words with allusions to historical, psychological and religious cosmology. The characters turn up in hundreds of different forms - animal, vegetable and mineral. Transformations are as flexible as in Ovid'sMetamorphoses. The last word in the book is 'the', which leads, by Joyce's ever recurrent cycles, to the opening word in the book, the eternal 'riverrun.'
Although the events are set in the Dublin suburb of Chapelizod, the place is an analogy for everywhere else. Wake's structure follows the three stages of history as laid out by Vico: the Divine, the Heroic, and Human, followed period of flux, after which the cycle begins all over again: the last sentence in the work runs into the first. The title of the book is a compound of Finn MaCool, the Irish folk-hero who is supposed to return to life at some future date to become the savior of Ireland, and Tim Finnegan, the hero of music-hall ballad, who sprang to life in the middle of his own wake.
For further reading: James Joyce by Herbert Gorman (1939); Introducing James Joyce, ed. by T.S. Eliot (1942); Stephen Hero, ed. by Theodore Spencer (1944); James Joyce by W.Y. Tindall (1950); Joyce: The Man, the Reputation, the Work by M. Maglaner and R.M. Kain (1956); Dublin's Joyce by Hugh Kenner (1956); My Brtother's Keeper by S. Joyce (1958); James Joyceby Richard Ellmann (1959); A Readers' Guide to Joyce (1959); The Art of James Joyce by A.W. Litz (1961); Surface and Symbol: The Consistency of James Joyce's Ulysses by R.M. Adams (1962); J. Joyce-again's Finnegans Wake by B. Benstock (1965);James Joyce's 'Ulysses': Critical Essays, ed. by Clive Hart and David Hayman (1974); A Conceptual Guide to 'Finnegans Wake' by Michael H. Begnal and Fritz Senn (1974); James Joyce: the Citizen and the Artist by C. Peake (1977); James Joyce by Patrick Parrinder (1984); Joyce's Anatomy of Culture by Cheryl Herr (1986); Joyce's Book of the Dark: 'Finnegans Wake by John Bishop (1986); Reauthorizing Joyce by Vicki Mahaffey (1988); 'Ulysses' Annotated by Don Gifford (1988); An Annotated Critical Bibliography of James Joyce, ed. by Thomas F. Staley (1989); The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce, ed by Derek Attridge (1990); Joyce's Web by Margot Norris (1992); James Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by David Seed (1992);Critical Essays on James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake ed. by Patrick A. McCarthy (1992); James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's Nightmare by Robert E. Spoo (1994), Gender in Joyce, ed. by Jolanta W. Wawrzycka (1997) ; A Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses, ed. by Margot Norris (1999); Toiseen maailmaan. James Joycen novelli "Kuolleet" kirjallisuustieteen kohteenaby Pekka Vartiainen (1999); The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920 by John McCourt (2000) - See also: Little Blue Light, Samuel Beckett, William Butler Yeats, Marcel Proust Selected works:
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
-Introibo ad altare Dei.
Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:
--Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit!
--Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the jews...do you know why? [Mr. Deasy asked Stephen]
--Because she never let them in, Mr. Deasy said solemnly.
A coughball of laughter leaped from his throat dragging after it a rattling chain of phlegm. [U30/437]
Then they sang the second verse of the Tantum Ergo and Canon O'Hanlon got up again and censed the Blessed Sacrament and knelt down and he told Father Conroy that one of the candles was going to set fire to the flowers and Father Conroy got up and settled it all right and she could see the gentleman winding his watch and listening to the works and she swung her leg more in and out. [U296/552]
And then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind blank and O! and everyone cried O! O! in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of rain gold hair threads and they shed and ah! they were all greeny dew stars falling with golden, O so lovely, O, soft, sweet, soft! [U300/736]
Mr. Bloom raised a cake to his nostrils. Sweet lemony wax. --I'll take this one, he said. That makes three and a penny. [U69/512]
The superior, the very reverend John Conmee S.J. reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket as he came down the presbytery steps. Five to three.
He was passing at that moment before the Jesuit house in Gardiner Street and wondered vaguely which window would be his if he ever joined the order. [PA Chapter 4]
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
*Before Nelson's Pillar trams slowed, shunted, changed trolley, started for Blackrock, Kingstown and Dalkey...begins the Aeolus chapter. Right and left parallel clanging ringing a doubledecker and a singledeck moved from their railheads, swerved to the down line, glided parallel.[U 96/1]
Pineapple rock, lemon platt, butter scotch. A sugarsticky girl shovelling scoopfuls of creams for a christian brother. Some school treat. Bad for their tummies. Lozenge and comfit manufacturer to His Majesty the King. God. Save. Our. Sitting on his throne sucking red jububes white.
A sombre Y.M.C.A. man, watchful among the warm sweet fumes of Graham Lemon's, placed a throwaway in a hand of Mr. Bloom.[U 124/1]
Hot mockturtle vapor and steam of newbaked jampuffs rolypoly poured out of Harrison's. The heavy noonreek tickled the top of Mr. Bloom's gullet. [U 129/232]
Before the huge high door of the Irish house of Parliament a flock of pigeons flew. Their little frolic after meals. Who will we do it on? I pick the fellow in black.
Grafton Street gay with awnings lured his senses. Muslin prints, silkdames and dowagers, jingle of harnesses, hoofthuds lowringing in the baking causeway. [U 137/614]
...fresh clean bread, with relish of disgust pungent mustard, the feety savour of green cheese. Sips of his wine soothed his palate. Not logwood that... [U 142/818]
But the trees in Stephen's Green were fragrant of rain and the rainsodden earth gave forth its mortal odour, a faint incense rising upward through the mould from many hearts. The soul of the gallant venal city which his elders had told him of had shrunk with in a moment when he entered the sombre college he would be conscious of a corruption other than that of Buck Egan and Burnchapel Whaley. [PA chapter 5]
Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back of the Customhouse and passed under the Loop Line bridge where a brazier of coke burning in front of a sentrybox or something like one attracted their rather lagging footsteps. [U503/100]
__What did you buy that for? he asked. To learn French? She nodded, reddening and closing tight her lips...
__Here, Stephen said. It's all right. Mind Maggy doesn't pawn it on you. I suppose all my books are gone.
__Some, Dilly said. We had to.
She is drowning. Agenbite. Save her. Agenbite. All against us. She will drown me with her, eyes and hair. Lank coils of seaweed hair around me, my heart, my soul. Salt green death.
We.
Agenbite of inwit. Inwit's agenbite.
Misery! Misery!
*Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing.
Imperthnthn thnthnthn.
Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips.
Horrid! And gold flushed more.
A husky fifenote blew.
Blew.Blue bloom is on the.
Goldpinnacled hair.
....[U 210/1]
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.[FW 1]
Away a lone a last a loved a long the [ FW 628/15]
Mr. Power's soft eyes went up to the apex of the lofty cone. __He's at rest, he said, in the middle of his people, old Dan O'. But his heart is buried in Rome. How many broken hearts are buried here, Simon! [U86/642]
The Botanic Gardens are just over there. It's the blood sinking in the earth gives new life. Same idea those jews they said killed the christian boy. Every man his price. Well preserved fat corpse, gentleman, epicure, invaluable for fruit garden. A bargain. [U 89/770]
The gates glimmered in front: still open. Back to the world again. Enough of this place. Brings you a bit nearer every time. Last time I was here was Mrs. Sinico's funeral. [U 94/996]
William Humble, earl of Dudley, and Lady Dudley, accompanied by lieutenant colonel Heseltine, drove out after luncheon from the viceregal lodge...
The cavalcade passed out by the lower gate of Phoenix park saluted by obsequious policemen and proceeded past Kingsbridge along the northern quays. The viceroy was most cordially greeted on his way through the metropolis. [U 207/1176]
Mind your hats goan in! Now yiz are in the Willingdone Museyroom. This is a Prooshious gunn. this is a ffrinch. Tip. This is the flag of the Prooshious. Saloos the Crossgunn! Up with your pike and fork! Tip. (Bullsfoot! Fine!) This is the triplewon hat of Lipoleum. Tip Lipoleumhat. This is the Willingdone on his same white harse, the Cokenhape...[FW 8/9-18].
of having behaved with ongentilmensky immodus opposite a pair of dainty maidservants in the swoolth of the rushy hollow whither, or so the two gown and pinners pleaded,...but whose published combinations of silkinlaine testimonies are, where not dubiously pure, visibly divergent, as wapt from wept, on minor points touching the intimate nature of this, a first offence in vert or venison which was admittedly an incautious but, at its wildest, a partial exposure with such attenuating circumstances (garthen gaddeth green hwere sokeman brideth girling) as an abnormal Saint Swithin's summer and, Jesses Rosasharon!) aripe occasion to provoke it. [FW 34/19-30]
Both works are contained in The Portable James Joyce / with an introduction by Harry Levin. New York, Viking Press, 1966. This edition is recommended to the traveler. 820.81J
- James Joyce, Dubliners
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Also in the Visitors Reports of The New York Society Library, James Joyce in the New York Society Library by Marylin Bender Altschul, February 1996.
- James Joyce, Ulysses: The corrected text edited by Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior. New York, Random House, 1986. FJ
- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. New York, Viking Press, 1939. FJ
- Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, revised edition, New York, Oxford University Press, 1982. 92 J89E
- Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1988. 92 J892M
- A. Nick Fargnoli and Michael P. Gillespie, James Joyce A to Z, New York, Facts on File Inc. 1995. 823J
- Patricia Hutchins, James Joyce's Dublin. London, The Grey Walls Press, 1950. 92 J89H
James Joyce - Pagina 290door Robert H. Deming - Literary Criticism - 1997135- Yeats and the Dublin Philosophical Society 1923 Extract from an unsigned
... [Yeats] One writer the Auditor [Mr. Beare] had mentioned—James Joyce—was ... |
James Joyce and the Fabrication of an Irish Identity - Pagina 88door Michael Patrick Gillespie - National characteristics, Irish, in literature - 2001 - 200 pagina’sAs a Dublin writer taking a complex and—by the standards of his own day—cosmopolitan
... of an Irish national literature, Joyce found himself an exile or, ... |
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce - Pagina 35door Derek Attridge - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 312 pagina’sHowever, Joyce, like Wilde and Shaw, was a Dublin writer. For him, as for them,
Ireland was a negative idea, a place which threatened the artist's freedom ... |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Pagina 11door James Joyce - Fiction - 1991 - 256 pagina’sThe same principle, Joyce seems to be claiming, will apply to any human ...
But the novel about a writer growing up in Dublin was never far from his ... |
The Word According to James Joyce: Reconstructing representation - Pagina 21door Cordell D. K. Yee - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 171 pagina’sIn Dublin, Joyce has found a concrete universal. The stories contain concrete
particulars that point to a larger idea. Dubliners thus satisfies Aristotle's ... |
James Joyce A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work - Pagina 59door A. Nicholas Fargnoli, Michael Patrick Gillespie - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 320 pagina’sDublin Capital city of Ireland and Irish Sea port, where James Joyce was born
and grew up. ... writer has yet presented Dublin to the world. ... |
James Joyce - Pagina 208door Richard Ellmann - Novelists, Irish - 1983 - 887 pagina’sIn a letter of October 15, 1905, to Grant Richards, he emphasized the same
intention: 'I do not think that any writer has yet presented Dublin to the world. ... |
James Joyce: A Definitive Biography - Pagina 242door Herbert Sherman Gorman - Authors, Irish - 1941 - 354 pagina’sLater Joyce discovered that the astute Mr. M proposed to shoot his picture ...
here and briefly note the various rencontres the Dublin writer had with this ... |
Dublin a Cultural History - Pagina 164door Siobhán Marie Kilfeather, Inc NetLibrary - 2005Richard Ellmann, James Joyce James Joyce, graduate of University College Dublin,
sometime music student, and sometime schoolmaster, and an aspiring writer ... |
James Joyce: A Short Introduction - Pagina 3door Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 176 pagina’sJoyce never recovered. (James Joyce: Interviews and Recollections, p. ...
poring over etymological dictionaries and wandering Dublin streets for unusual or ... |
James Joyce and Nationalism - Pagina 187door Emer Nolan - Literary Criticism - 1995Tradition and the Irish Writer (Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1970), p. 65. 21 Ellmann,
James Joyce, p. 102. 22 See Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, 'Odysseus or ... |
Dublin - Pagina 31door Fionn Davenport, Martin Hughes - Travel - 2004 - 264 pagina’sJennifer Johnston (1930—) was the most well-known female writer from Dublin in
... become a hugely successful novelist and • Dubliners, James Joyce scholar. ... |
Dubliners - Pagina xidoor James Joyce - Fiction - 1993 - 316 pagina’sThe one was entirely personal to the Joyce family, the other was an event ...
but to a Dublin of mean dwellings, low public houses and slum tenements with ... |
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man and Dubliners - Pagina 421door James Joyce - Fiction - 2004 - 464 pagina’sJAMES JOYCE Comments The Dublin papers will object to my stories as to a ...
Like Swift and another living Irish writer, Mr. Joyce has a cloacal obsession. ... |
James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's Nightmare - Pagina 27door Robert Spoo - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 208 pagina’sOne reason, surely, why Dublin was beginning to seem more dear than dirty ...
were worse microcosms than Dublin to which a writer might consecrate his art. ... |
The Biography Book: A Reader's Guide to Nonfiction, Fictional, and Film ... - Pagina 218door Daniel S. Burt - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 640 pagina’sThis scholarly edition collects both letters by and to Joyce and provides an
essential window on the writer's personality. Selected Letters of James Joyce. ... |
Saturday Reviewdoor Bernard Augustine De Voto - American literature - 1952Obviously, in the case of a writer like James Joyce, his books could not bring
... part studies one pursued to get ai sity degree in modern literal Dublin. ... |
Troubled Histories, Troubled Fictions - Pagina 96door Theo D'haen, José Lanters, C. C. Barfoot, Theo d' Haen - 1995James Joyce, Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition, 3 vols, ed. ... will probably
not be duplicated in the case of the new Dublin writer, James Joyce, ... |
The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce - Pagina 32door Eric Bulson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 152 pagina’sDublin was the setting for virtually all his works. ... of the twentieth century:
I do not think that any writer has yet presented Dublin to the world. ... |
The Irish Writer and the World - Pagina 41door Declan Kiberd - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 342 pagina’s14 James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (London, 1960), p. 183.
... 18 Behan's Irish poems were published in Comhar (Dublin, April 1964). ... |
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Makers of Modern Culture - Pagina 256door Justine Wintle - Social Science - 2002234 JOYCE, James Augustine 1882-1941 Irish writer James Joyce was the greatest
... Joyce was born at Rathgar, Dublin, on 2 February 1882, into a fairly ... |
The Celtic Master: Contributions to the First James Joyce Symposium Held in ... - Pagina 9door Donagh MacDonagh - Civilization, Celtic, in literature - 1969 - 57 pagina’sOthers again, affecting to dismiss the later work, will profess to see Mr.
Joyce as a French writer of the school of Flaubert. In this Gresham hotel, ... Fragmentweergave - Over dit boek - Aan mijn bibliotheek toevoegen
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James Joyce and the Israelites - Pagina 87door Seamus Finnegan - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 135 pagina’sIn 1982 when JAMES JOYCE & THE ISRAELITES was in production at the Lyric Theatre
... The Irish Attache was polite and dutiful but no invitation to Dublin in ... |
James Joyce and the Act of Reception: Reading, Ireland, Modernism - Pagina 108door John Nash - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 230 pagina’sA certain James F. Conmee wrote to Joyce from Dublin in 1928 to enquire ...
to the familiar caricature of the 'greatly misunderstood' writer suffering form ... |
Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism - Pagina 156door Desmond Harding - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 236 pagina’sSee also Torchiana, "Joyce and Dublin," The Irish Writer and the City 52-63 and
David Pierce, James Joyce's Ireland (New Haven: Yale UP, 1992). ... |
James Joyce: Two Decades of Criticism - Pagina 285door Eugène Jolas - Ireland - 1963 - 486 pagina’s... VIVIAN MERCIER DUBLIN UNDER THE JOYCES I do not think that any writer has yet
... 1 James Joyce in a letter to Grant Richards, December 3, 1905, ... Fragmentweergave - Over dit boek - Aan mijn bibliotheek toevoegen
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Magill's Literary Annual, 1987 - Pagina 418door Magill, Frank Northen, 1907- - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 1026 pagina’s$30.00 Type of work: Biography Time: 1882-1915 Locale: Dublin, Paris, Trieste,
Rome A biography of the Irish writer James Joyce dealing principally with his ... |
Ireland - Pagina 102door Tom Downs - Travel - 2004 - 716 pagina’sTOURS Dublin is an easy city to see on foot so a guided walking tour is an ...
Suffolk BLOOMSDAY Six days after meeting her, the writer James Joyce had his ... |
Unicorns - Pagina 187door James Huneker - Literary Criticism - 1917 - 361 pagina’sCHAPTER XVI JAMES JOYCE WHO is James Joyce? is a question that was answered by
John Quinn, who told us that the new writer was from Dublin and at present ... |
Cultural Studies of James Joyce - Pagina 138door R. B. Kershner - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 215 pagina’sambivalences of Joyce's attitude toward “dear dirty Dublin,” it is unclear ...
too numerous dichotomies is Art versus Life—Richard as writer-director, ... |
![]() James Joyce, ca. 1918 |
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Born | 2 February 1882 Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland |
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Died | 13 January 1941 (aged 58) Zürich, Switzerland |
Occupation | Novelist and Poet |
Literary movement | Modernism, and imagism |
Influences | Homer, Aristotle, Dante,Aquinas, Shakespeare,Dujardin, Ibsen, Bruno, Vico,Chekhov |
Influenced | Beckett, Borges, O'Brien,Rushdie, Eco, Woolf, DeLillo,Burgess, Campbell, Faulkner,Edna O'Brien, Martin Amis,Jamie O'Neill, Orwell |
“ | ...an American tourist of the most typical variety leaned over my shoulder and sighed: "So many books! What is the definitive one? Is there any?" It was an extremely small book shop, a news agency. I almost replied, "Yes, there are two of them, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.[43] | ” |
The Dog-Eared Collective: You’re Better Than This »
Category | Comedy |
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Genres | sketch show |
Group | Dog-Eared Collective |
Venue | Underbelly, Cowgate |
Times | 16:00 |
Suitability | 14+ |
Duration | 1 hour |
Anarchic sketch troupe The Dog-Eared Collective change your life. One sketch at a time. Fly on the cape tails of a Diddy Man Vigilante, champion the power of Snooker: The Musical and answer the smell of the wild. Pour homme. Supercharged silliness that will scrub you up the right way. 'Sublimely surreal' **** (Chortle.co.uk) ‘Make no mistake these comedians are very funny’**** (Hairline.org.uk) 'They possess the downright gutsy balls not seen since Jam, the silliness of Bottom and the honest comedy ride that was Smack the Pony.' (Leeds Guide).
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Halcyon is a name for a bird of Greek legend which is commonly associated with the kingfisher. The phrase comes from the ancient belief that fourteen days of calm weather were to be expected around the winter solstice - usually 21st or 22nd of December in the Northern Hemisphere. as that was when the halcyon calmed the surface of the sea in order to brood her eggs on a floating nest. The Halcyon days are generally regarded as beginning on the 14th or 15th of December.
Halcyon means calm and tranquil, or 'happy or carefree'. It is rarely used now apart from in the expression halcyon days. The name of the legendary bird was actually alcyon, the 'h' was added in regard to the supposed association with the sea ('hals' in Greek).
The source of the belief in the bird's power to calm the sea originated in a myth recorded by Ovid. The story goes that Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, had a daughter named Alcyone, who was married to Ceyx, the king of Thessaly. Ceyx was drowned at sea and Alcyone threw herself into the sea in grief. Instead of drowning, she was carried to her husband by the wind. The rest of the story is, in a translation of Ovid:
The Gods their shapes to winter-birds translate, But both obnoxious to their former fate. Their conjugal affection still is ty'd, And still the mournful race is multiply'd: They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd, Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest: A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind, Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind; Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease, And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas.
The legendary bird is usually identified with the kingfisher. That was also said to nest on the sea and was believed to be able to calm the sea for the seven days before and seven days after the winter solstice.
In 1398, John Trevisa translated Bartholomew de Glanville's De proprietatibus rerum into Middle English:
"In the cliffe of a ponde of occean, Alcion, a see foule, in wynter maketh her neste and layeth egges in vii days and sittyth on brood ... seuen dayes."
In Henry VI, Part I, 1592, Shakespeare refers to halcyon days:
JOAN LA PUCELLE: Assign'd am I to be the English scourge. This night the siege assuredly I'll raise: Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days, Since I have entered into these wars.
Note: Saint Martin's summer is what we now know as an Indian summer.
The kingfisher is associated with other powers relating to the weather. In mediaeval times it was thought that if the dried carcase of a kingfisher was hung up it would always point its beak in the direction of the wind [don't try this at home]. Shakespeare also refers to this in King Lear, 1605:
Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters
Our current use of halcyon days tends to be nostalgic and recalling of the seemingly endless sunny days of youth.
"Halcyon Days" may also refer to:
In 2003, two young lads played together in what was the first incarnation of the band Halcyon Daze. For years, musicians came and went from the group, but the duo of guitarist/singer Podge and drummer Jay was a constant, and formed a solid foundation for Halcyon Daze. As Jay and Podge were both still in school, the band was very on and off, that is until the pair finally realised that music was all they should be doing and quit college to take the band to the next level.
Having already played a lot of the venues on the Dublin gig circuit, they decided it made more sense to do something different to their peers, who seemed to be going around in circles, by playing free gigs on the streets. Instantly the band began to build a real following, and even more so with the addition of Daragh Kinch on bass in October 2010. Since then the group has jammed out on street corners, at college balls, flea markets, parks and even a haunted castle! By playing gigs in England and Scotland, and especially by playing on the streets around Ireland to masses of people, Halcyon Daze has built a reputation as a great live act, and gained an international fanbase that extends accross Europe and even over to the U.S.
In the seven years of the bands existence, Halcyon Daze's sound has morphed and mutated into many different musical styles - spacey psychedelic soundscapes, wahwah and sunshine soaked funk, crunching rock and metal, folk, prog, dance, surf, porn and country music, off the wall improvised jams, and many other things that don't have words - the trio just play whatever comes out of them. The sound has been described as "mesmerizing", "tidal" and "hypnotic" by listeners and it is not unusual to see people breaking into dance or even start screaming at the top of their voice in joy as they pass the band on the street. (No joke)
2011 has been a great year for Halcyon Daze so far, the busy group continue to spread their message on the streets and in venues around Ireland, and in August they will make their first ever festival appearance at the world famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, where earlier in the year they were filmed for a soon to be aired Australian TV show showcasing undiscovered musicians from around the world
David Granato and Cloudye Carew-Reid the founders of Polygranate Films are in Edinburgh to film a TV Special featuring Halcyon Daze, Das Contras, an exciting new Rock Jazz Funk Band from Fifth in Scotland getting ready to tour Australia with Halcyon Daze and other new exciting
talent discovered around
the world by Wijat Records such as Michael Scot Parker (the girl) and her Creature Rock Band from San Francisco,
Ian Pummell's Trip Tyle, Skirlie
a Scotish Folk Band and
Lynne Hanson talented singer song writer from Ottawa, Canada supporting artist to
New York Folk Rock Star Dar Williams at Dar's Borderline, London gig on the 18th November, 2009
USA's most loved Folk Rock Singer Dar Williams is performing at the following Dates in the UK
You will be sorry if you miss out on seeing Dar Williams on this rare UK
Check out Dar Williams at Club Volaire, Edinburgh in 2007 singing her most loved favourite
"The Baby Sitter" that is bound to requested on this UK tour..we don't think Dar will be allowed home till she sings this one
Lynne Hanson talented singer song writer from Ottawa, Canada supporting
wel known ns muxch loved folk rock artist from New York State, Dar Williams at Borderline, London UK 18-11\-09
Dar Williams singing and telling her amazing zany and entertainiing stories at Borderline, London, Uk 18-11-09
Dar Williams one of the best emerging folk Rock singers this century supported by talented Ottawa, Canada singer songwriter Lynne Hason both sing to a packed house at Borerline, London UK on 18th November, 2009
The crowd went wild and refused to let Dar Williams leave the stage at her Borderline Gigin London on the 18th November, 2009. Dar had to come back to the stage three times to sing and entertain the demanding crowd with an unending appetite for Dar's soulful story telling songs, sung only the way Dar can do it with her magical unique voice. Dar was supported by Lynne Hanson, a very talented singer songwriter from Ottawa, Canada, with a very soulful voice and real stories to tell. Lynne sings porch music that merges universal themes with Texas soul-country..
Don't miss Dar Williams in Edinburgh on the 21st November, 2009, presented by
Lonesome Highway Promotions http://www.lonesomehighway.co.
Other events coming up at Borderline, Orange Yard, off Manette Street, Soho, London, W1D 4AR
... walking distance from the Tottenham Road Tube
Thursday 19 November 2009 , Mean Fiddler presents Trace Bundy and Megafaun
Friday 20th Novemebr 2009, Mean Fiddler presents PINEY Gir plus Kami Thompson, John Mckeon, and Jason Street
Saturday 21st November 2009 , Mean Fiddler presents Nancy Elizabeth plus Cate Le Bon and Messasge to Bears
Tuesday 24th November 2009, Barfly presents Fight Like Apes
Wednesday 25th November 2009, Mean Fiddler presents Suzanna & The magical orchestra plus Susanne Sundfoer
Thursday 26th Novmber 2009, Mean Fiddler presents Sarah Gillespie and Grad Alzmon
Friday 27th November 2009 CJC & The Borderline presents The Penny Black Remedy and guests
Saturday 28th November 2009 Mead Fiddler presents Sham 69 plus Alternatuve TV asnd Shagasty
Tuesday 1st December 2009, Club Uncut presents Deer Tuck and Megafaun
Wednesday 2nd December 2009, Mean Fiddler presents James Grant
Thursday 3rd December Live Nation presents Of A Revolution and special guests
Friday 4th December 2009, Mean Fiddler presents Gay For Johnny Dep plus Outcry Collective
Saturday 6th December 2009 Mean Fiddler presents Kevin Tuffy & The Coldharbour Band plus Belle Grande and Attoy Ark
Sunday 6th December 2009 SJM Concerts presents Kevin Devine plus special guests
Tuesday 8th December 2009 Mean Fiddler presents Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett (from Little Feat) plus Juliah Dawson
Wednesday 9th December 2009, Mean Fiddler presents Acoustic Ladyland
Thursday 10th December 2009 DHP Converts presents Lowline
Friday 11th December 2009 Barfly presents Kate Miller Heidke
Saturday 12th December 2009 Wildplum Live presents Doctor Fonda plus Pandora and 6 Second Silence
Sunday 13rh December 2009 Mean Fiddler presents Ian Broudie ( of Lightning Seeds) & James Walsh (of Starsailor) plus Matthew P
Tuesday 15th December Curious Generation presents Jay & The Boys plus Will Can Sing and Olivia Sebastianelli
Thursday 17th December 2009, Mean Fiddler presents Deathray Trebuchay plus Klezma Villanova
Friday 18th December 2009 CIC & The Borderline presents 12 Dirty Bullets
Saturday 19th December 2009 VPMG presents APSE and special guests
Thursday 31st December 2009, 10pm The Borderline presents Christmas Clubs' New's Eve Party
Justin Butcher
Assembly presents another set of outstanding shows at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Fest
Justin Butcher, his director-producer Guy Masterson and Assemby presented one of the most outstanding performances at 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Fest with the one man play Scaramouche Jones.
" Justin Butcher performed well within the standard of a royal variety perfomance in his one man play Scaramouche Jones, and there was no hesitation in awarding Justin Butcher and his director-propducer Guy Masterson a USA Weekly News 100 Star Award for Scaramouch Jones....those that were lucky enough to see the one and only performance of Scaramouch Jones were very fortunate indeed....".....USA Weekly News . .
However, these is another play with Justin Butcher to see at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Fest that is also a show not to be missed called Go To Gaza, Drink The Sea, at Assembly at 2.30 pm being performed from the 6th August till the 30th August, 2009.
In Go To Gaza, Drink The Sea, Justin Butcher (Scaramouche Jones) and Ahmed Masoud conjure up a multi media Palestinian-British theatre alchemy. ' a harrowing joiurney into a very modern heart of darkness' (Stage') 'Profane witty, poetic, a voice form Gaza Beach itself ' (Tribune)