Call For Papers: Finnegans Wake in Context

Dr. Robert Brazeau University of Alberta For the first many years of its life, Finnegans Wake was thought to have too few prescient and informing contexts. The “unreadability” of the work was deemed to derive, at least in part, from the general absence of other, proximate works that might allow access to the linguistic density…Continue Reading Call For Papers: Finnegans Wake in Context

Happy Birthday, Mr. Joyce: The First Copies of Ulysses

DATELINE: PARIS, FEBRUARY 2, 1922* Gare-de-Lyon Train Station—7:00 a.m By Richard J. Gerber   It was more than an hour before sunrise, still dark and cold. A nervous thirty-four-year-old Sylvia Beach—the American proprietor of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop—pulled her wool coat close and tugged at her cloche hat as she looked down the track….Continue Reading Happy Birthday, Mr. Joyce: The First Copies of Ulysses

Issue 59.1

ARTICLES The Space Between Fiction and Reality: Uncovering the Real Lizzie Twigg Elizabeth Foley O’Connor A Royal Divorce: Background, Summary, and Commentary John Gordon Hope, Hunger, and Spiritual Liberation in Joyce’s Dubliners David Rando Mētis in Modern Life Benjamin Madden “The flow of language as it is. the Thoughts”: On time and Thoughts and Movement in Ulysses Timea…Continue Reading Issue 59.1

Call for Papers: XXVIII International James Joyce Symposium

The XXVIII International James Joyce Symposium is interested in contributions examining the long reception and posterity of Ulysses, Joyce’s influence on writers and artists (including creative contributions in various forms and mediums), and the history of a hundred years of Joyce criticism. The century of Ulysses has coincided with a wide range of innovative critical approaches and…Continue Reading Call for Papers: XXVIII International James Joyce Symposium

Issue 58.1-2

PERSPECTIVES Zerothruster: A Report on the 2019 Zurich James Joyce Foundation Workshop, 5-11 August 2019 Halila Bayramova ARTICLES Introduction Katherine Ebury and Michelle Witen “The Sassenach wants his morning rashers”: The Colonial Market and the Commodified Animal in “Telemachus” Robert Brazeau Bullockbefriending Bards: The Ambivalent Role of Cattle in the Odyssey and Ulysses Stephanie Nelson…Continue Reading Issue 58.1-2

Clever, Very: Mark David Kaufman

This installment of our “Clever, Very” series is an interview with Mark David Kaufman, an assistant professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. Kaufman’s research interests include legal, aesthetic, and medical discourses as well as espionage and the recruitment of authors by MI6. Dr. Kaufman has published numerous articles on Joyce as…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Mark David Kaufman

Katherine Ebury: COVID Check-In

This is the thirteenth installment in our COVID Check-Ins series, in which we feature videos by various Joyceans from around the world to update us on how they are handling the COVID pandemic, how their community is responding, and how it has affected their teaching/research. This entry features Katherine Ebury, a senior lecturer at the…Continue Reading Katherine Ebury: COVID Check-In

Ronan Crowley: COVID Check-In

This is the eleventh installment in our COVID Check-Ins series, in which we feature videos by various Joyceans from around the world to update us on how they are handling the COVID pandemic, how their community is responding, and how it has affected their teaching/research. This entry features Ronan Crowley, a research fellow at the…Continue Reading Ronan Crowley: COVID Check-In