The Liberate Ulysses collaborative, the people who brought you Ulysses on twitter for Bloomsday 2012, have embarked on another project for this year’s festivities. Jamie Murphy and Steve Cole are publishing The Works of Master Poldy, a collection of the sayings, aphorisms, and wisdom of Leopold Bloom. The book will be published by the letterpress printer, Savage Press who specialize in art books and hand-print their products using both metal and wooden type. To read more about the book and its production click here. Murphy and Cole are raising funds to help with the publication process and you can follow the twitter stream here and donate here.
Through May 5th, Seattle’s Frye Museum is hosting a unique exhibit inspired by Joyce’s Chamber Music. The exhibit consists of 36 paintings done by different artists to correspond with each poem in the collection. However, instead of merely reading the poem, the artists created their work in response to music inspired by the individual poems. In addition to the artworks themselves, the Frye is also providing museum-goers with access to other work the artists have done, including academic, curatorial, and theoretical items. The full exhibit description can be accessed here.
This past weekend, University College Dublin held its James Joyce Research Colloquim at various venues around their campus. The event, taking place from the 25th through the 27th, featured talks and discussions by an array of eminent Joyceans. Panel topics included “Joyce’s Punctuation,” “Avant-textes and Annotations,” “Distressing Intertextualities,” and “Technology and Globalization.” Among those giving talks were Claire Hutton, Anne Fogarty, Terence Killeen, and Luca Crispi. The Colloquium’s full program and list of abstracts can be viewed here.
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Issue 48.4 (Summer 2011) is available for ordering. The issue features articles from Joseph Kelly, Austin Briggs, Gordon Bowker, Eleni Loukopoulou, Catherine Gubernatis Dannen, and Bill Brockman’s Current JJ Checklist (115). It also includes an entertainment from Simon Loekle. The front cover is a caricature of Joyce that appeared in the November, 1922 New York Tribune.
The table of contents with links to articles and abstracts from Project Muse is below.
PERSPECTIVES
“Changed, Eh?”: A Report on the XXIII International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 10-16 June 2012
Brandon Walsh
“From the Pigeons to the Copycats of 596 Dublin”: The 2012 International James Joyce Symposium, 10-16 June 2012
Sonja Jankov
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Joyce’s Exile: The Prodigal Son
Joseph Kelly
Joyce’s Drinking
Austin Briggs
Joyce in England
Gordon Bowker
Joyce’s Progress Through London: Conquering the English Publishing Market
Eleni Loukopoulou
The Facts and Fiction Behind “the Free, the Flow, the Frothy Freshener”: The Guinness Company and the Story of Joyce’s Lost Ad
Catherine Gubernatis Dannen
CURRENT JJ CHECKLIST (115)
William S. Brockman
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ENTERTAINMENTS
Biografiend!
Simon Loekle
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REVIEW ESSAY
Biography and Textual Genesis, or Does Joyce Now Have Nine Lives?
John Paul Riquelme
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A Letter from Louis Gillet
Valérie Bénéjam
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce: A Lost Portrait (Perhaps)
Snowdon Barnett
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Modernist Humanism and the Men of 1914: Joyce, Lewis, Pound, and Eliot, by Stephen Sicari
Janine Utell
Decolonizing Modernism: James Joyce and the Development of Spanish American Fiction, by José Luis Venegas
M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera
Joyce e il cinema delle origini: Circe, by Marco Camerani
Ira Torresi
Eugene Jolas: Critical Writings, 1924-1951, edited by Klaus H. Kiefer and Rainer Rumold
Adam Piette
“Tilling a teel of a tum, telling a toll of a teary turty Taubling,” “Finnegans Wake”: An Operoar (work in progress), by Martin Pearlman
Sandra Tropp
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On June 8th, the Institut Du Monde Anglophone at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris will be holding a one day conference entitled “Optical Errors in James Joyce.” If you have additional questions about the conference, you can contact Andre Topia at andre.topia@orange.fr. Here is the conference program:
Saturday, June 8 (Grand Amphithéâtre)
- 10.15 am : André Topia (Sorbonne Nouvelle) : “Scopic Joyce : Defective Lenses and
Blurred Focus”
- 11 am : Daniel Ferrer (ITEM-CNRS) : “Joyce’s Myopic Writing”
Saturday, June 8 (Grand Amphithéâtre)
- 02.15 pm : Sam Slote (Trinity College Dublin) : “‘I’m your Venus effect’ : Reflection and
Desire in ‘Circe’ (Ulysses)”
- 03 pm : David Spurr (Genève) : “Joyce’s Shadow Vision”
- 04.15 pm : Fritz Senn (Zürich James Joyce Foundation) : “The Warped Modality of
‘Ithaca’ (Ulysses)”
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Today, the Irish Central Bank released a James Joyce collector coin. The coin, designed by Mary Gregoriy, features a portrait of Joyce with text from Ulysses flowing out of his head as a representation of his stream of consciousness technique. Unfortunately, the coin misquotes Stephen’s thoughts from “Proteus,” raising the possibility that a revised and corrected edition (perhaps overseen by Hans Gabler) will have to be released. The coin is part of the European Silver Programme in which EU members issue thematically related coins to commemorate aspects of European culture. Ten thousand coins are being minted and can be bought here, by calling 1890 307 607, or from the Central Bank in Dublin. The cost is € 46. Read more on the coin’s inception and design here.
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Thomas F. Staley, the founding editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, will retire from his position as the Director of the dazzling Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at the end of August. The HRC just announced that his successor will be Stephen Enniss, the current Head Librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Dr. Enniss holds advanced degrees in both English and Library Science and has served in the past as a curator and then Director of Emory’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. He seems to be an outstanding choice for this new position and it’s particularly encouraging to see someone committed to single-author scholarship assume this important role.
And of course we wish Dr. Staley the very best as he leaves the HRC and resumes his teaching career. He helped build Joyce studies into a global phenomenon and has played an equally important role in assembling perhaps the finest collection of modernist materials in the world. All of us who work in the field owe him our thanks while here at the journal we continue to safeguard an intellectual and institutional legacy he gave us that is extending this summer into its fiftieth year.
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It seems we might have some competition here at the journal. I just discovered that there is now a J.J.Q. Billiards Lounge in Missisauga, Ontario, which clearly hopes to cash in on our fame. As Austin Briggs points out, their homepage even features an image of two women (one with dark hair, the other light): dead ringers for the Bronze and Gold of the Ormand bar. Needless to say, an extensive research trip appears to be in order.
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I’m happy to announce that a new special issue of JJQ on “Joyce’s Lives” is now in the mail. It features a variety of biographical essays on Joyce that range across topics like fatherhood, alcoholism, stardom, and even advertising. The contents include:
- Joseph Kelly on Joyce’s maturation as a father and an artist;
- Austin Briggs writing about Joyce’s often profligate and self-destructive drinking;
- Gordon Bowker expanding on his new biography with a piece about Joyce’s career in England;
- Eleni Loukopoulou on Joyce’s widespread publishing network in London and the way it organized and sustained his reputation;
- Catherine Gubernatis Dannen’s essay on Joyce’s (mythical) work as an advertising copywriter for Guinness–and what it tells us about the author’s changing reputation in Ireland.
These essays are featured alongside our usual collection of notes, commentary, and book reviews. The journal is available in print or electronically at Project MUSE.
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The Irish Independent‘s Orlaith O’Neill has written a short report on the set of CDs just released by the British Library entitled The Spoken Word: Irish Poets and Writers–I Will Arise. It’s a gangly title but the collection includes radio broadcasts, recordings, and interviews with W.B. Yeats, Sean O’Casey, Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O’Connor, and many others.
According to O’Neill, the latter reflects briefly on a meeting with Joyce in Paris when the pair discussed some shared memories of Cork and the uncertain status of Ulysses in Ireland. O’Connor reminds us that the Joyce’s household language was Italian and he came away from the encounter at the Rue de Grenelle clearly finding the family and author both a bit disconcerting. Among other things, O’Connor claims that Joyce suffered a kind of “associative mania”–a not unsurprising diagnosis of the mind then at work on Finnegans Wake.
We’re planning to review The Spoken Word CDs ourselves in a forthcoming issue of JJQ.
