We know Joyce primarily as a prose writer and novelist, but he did publish two slight volumes of poetry: Chamber Music in 1907 and Pomes Penyeach in 1927. The latter contains thirteen short pieces of verse written roughly between 1904 and 1924. Ezra Pound found them generally unremarkable and though they contain a few linguistic…Continue Reading Joyce in 100 Objects: Pomes Penyeach
Our James Joyce in 100 Objects series continues this week with a copy of the scorching broadside, Gas from a Burner, written by Joyce as he left Ireland for the final time. In the late summer of 1912, he had traveled to his home city in an attempt to negotiate the publication of his beleaguered…Continue Reading Joyce in 100 Objects: Gas from a Burner
PERSPECTIVES Robert Scholes (1929-2016) Sean Latham “From Genesis to Revelations”: The 2016 Zurich James Joyce Foundation Workshop, 31 July-6 August 2016 Shinjini Chattopadhyay ARTICLES Introduction: Joycean Avant-Gardes Catherine Flynn and Richard Brown “Meddlied Muddlingisms”: The Uncertain Avant-Gardes of Finnegans Wake Tim Conley Finnegans Wake’s Radio Montage: Man-Made Static, the Avant-Garde, and Collective Reading Catherine Flynn…Continue Reading Volume 52.2
As part of our new digital initiative, the JJQ is delighted to announce the premiere of a photographic series titled “James Joyce in 100 Objects.” Initially, we’ll use this feature to share images and short descriptions of objects held by the McFarlin Library’s Special Collections at University of…Continue Reading New Features: “Joyce in 100 Objects” and Instagram Account
For this “Clever, Very” interview, Katherine Ryan spoke with us about her exploration of family and inheritance in her latest article, “Milly Bloom as Blind Spot in Ulysses“, which appears in the latest issue of the JJQ (52.1). Dr. Ryan is a Professor in English at the San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas. James Joyce Quarterly: In…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Katherine Ryan
Ulysses Recovered To celebrate Bloomsday 2017, the James Joyce Quarterly, Booksmart Tulsa, and the Guthrie Green are sponsoring a contest to design a new cover for Joyce’s Ulysses. We welcome entries in all languages and encourage experimentation with media, typography, and layout. Select designs will be featured on the JJQ website and displayed as part…Continue Reading Art Contest: Ulysses Recovered Book Cover Contest
University at Buffalo, SUNY Libraries Special Collections Fellowships The UB Humanities Institute, in collaboration with the UB Libraries, is offering two fellowships – the James Joyce Fellowship and the Charles D. Abbott Library Fellowship – for visiting scholars and graduate students working on their dissertations to use the UB Libraries’ outstanding special collections, which include…Continue Reading Fellowship Opportunity: University at Buffalo, SUNY Special Collections
For our latest “Clever, Very” interview, Joshua Kotin at Princeton University talked to us about the Mapping Expatriate Paris: The Shakespeare and Company Lending Library Project (MEP) project. The MEP, which we previously described in one of our blog posts, is a digital humanities project that digitizes the extensive records Sylvia Beach kept for her…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Joshua Kotin
We recently discovered that University College Dublin has released a digital multimedia edition of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. This version of Portrait is broken up into chapters and provides mobile-friendly text as well as some very brief videos helping to explain the novel’s complex and evolving array of characters. For those of us…Continue Reading Digital Portrait
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