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James Joyce in ContextEdited by John McCourtUniversità degli Studi Roma TreAvailable at: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0511474628This collection of original, cohesive and concise essays charts the vital contextual backgrounds to Joyce's life and writing. The volume begins with a chronology of Joyce's publishing history, an analysis of his various biographies and a study of his many published and unpublished letters. It goes on to examine how his works were received in the main twentieth-century critical and theoretical schools. Most importantly, it places Joyce within multiple Irish, British and European contexts, providing a lively sense of the varied and changing world in which he lived, which formed him, and from which he wrote. The essays collectively show how Joyce was rooted in his times, how he is both a product and a critic of his multiple contexts, and how important he remains to the world of literature, criticism and culture.
Contents
Preface; Part I. Life and Works: 1. Chronology of composition and publication of the major works - Stacey Herbert; 2. Joyce's lives, memoirs and biographies - Finn Fordham; 3. Letters - William S. Brockman; Part II. Theory and Critical Reception: 4. Prewar Joyce - John Nash; 5. Postwar Joyce - Joseph Brooker; 6. Structuralism, deconstruction, post-structuralism - Sam Slote; 7. Gender and sexuality - Marian Eide; 8. Psychoanalysis - Luke Thurston; 9. Post-colonialism - Gregory Castle; 10. Genetic criticism - Dirk van Hulle; 11. Translation studies - Jolanta Wawrzycka; 12. World literature and cosmopolitanism - Eric Bulson; 13. Twenty-first century critical contexts - Sean Latham; Part III. Historical and Cultural Context: 14. Being in Joyce's world - Cheryl Temple Herr; 15. Dublin - L. M. Cullen; 16. The Irish nineteenth century - Matthew Campbell; 17. The Irish revival - Clare Hutton; 18. The English literary tradition - Patrick Parrinder; 19. Paris - Jean-Michel Rabate; 20. Trieste - John McCourt; 21. Greek and Roman themes - Brian Arkins; 22. Medicine - Vike Martina Plock; 23. Modernisms - Michael Levenson; 24. Music - Timothy Martin; 25. Irish and European politics, nationalism, socialism, empire - Brian Caraher; 26. Newspapers and popular culture - R. Brandon Kershner; 27. Language and languages - Tim Conley; 28. Philosophy - Fran O'Rourke; 29. Religion - Geert Lernout; 30. Science - Mark Morrison; 31. Cinema - Maria di Battista; 32. Sex - Christine Froula; Further reading; Index.
Introduction to the 'Joyciana' SeriesThe 'Trieste Joyce School', organised by Trieste University, has been a success since its founding in 1996, and will celebrate its 12th year in 2008. During this period, the School has brought more than 1000 students and about 150 Joyce specialists and other scholars from all over the world to Trieste. In 2007, the monograph series 'Joyciana' (ed. Claudia Corti and Renzo S. Crivelli, published by Pacini Editore, Florence-Pisa) was launched under the aegis of the 'Trieste Joyce School'. Inspired by the eminent Italian English literature specialist and enthusiastic supporter of the School, Agostino Lombardo, whose recent death unfortunately did not permit him to bring his project to conclusion, in 2007 the series produced its first volumes Esuli: Dramma, psicodramma, melodramma (Exiles: Drama, Psychodrama, Melodrama) by Claudia Corti, and Foglie triestine: Giacomo Joyce (Triestine Leaves: Giacomo Joyce) by Lia Guerra. The intention is to publish two volumes annually, one in Spring and one in Autumn. In fact, the monograph Joyce Gotico, by Laura Pelaschiar, will appear in Spring, 2008. The series is open to both Italian and foreign Joyceans, and to young scholars in particular.
La Letteratura Irlandese Contemporaneaa cura di Renzo S. Crivelli. Contributi di: Renzo S. Crivelli, Roberta Gefter Wondrich, Laura Pelaschiar, Fiorenzo Fantaccini, Silvia De Rosa.Link al sito dell'Editore - Link to the Publisher's website (It)Contemporary Irish Literature (Carocci Editore, 2007, Rome) covers a period of about 70 years, from the end of the 1940's, when the Irish Republic was formed, to the present. The book is divided into five sections: the southern Irish novel, the northern Irish novel, Poetry, Theatre and, finally, the Short Story, which constitutes a fundamental Irish literary form. The southern Irish novel is analysed by Roberta Gefter Wondrich, who begins with the literary renewal of the 1960's and then moves forwards to the New Irish Renaissance of the 1990's, which she defines as an 'experimental tradition' that takes into account a new realism and a linguistic research typical of Post-modernism. The narrative of the Irish Republic develops from the psychological introspection of the 1950's towards an increasingly diffused reaction to a rural culture dominated by the Catholic Church and the reactionary closure of peasant society. In the works of writers such as Edna O'Brien, John Banville and Colm Toibin, this reaction leads to a reinterpretation of Irish history through a rereading of the tradition. The northern Irish novel is examined by Laura Pelaschiar who, through her reading of authors such as Eugene McCabe, Jennifer Johnston, Briege Duffaud, Bernard MacLaverty and Robert McLiam Wilson, shows that this literary current not only represents a 'nation' which, for both Catholics and Protestants alike, has experienced the contradictions of English cultural and economic domination for centuries but which, in expanding its own literary perspectives and treatment, ultimately becomes a metaphor for a 'globalised' history of repression and suffering, thereby acquiring a universal character. A special section is devoted to the so-called 'Troubles Thriller' (or 'Troubles Fiction'), a new literary genre which, through a sort of 'aesthetics of violence', expresses the viewpoint of a people marginalised by History. The chapter on Poetry is by Renzo S. Crivelli who, taking his departure from the tradition of Yeats and Joyce, examines 70 years of Irish poetic production, both North and South, a geographical and social division which presents a profound convergence when dealing with the 'Troubles'. From Austin Clarke to Patrick Kavanagh, John Montague to Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon to Michael Longley, contemporary Irish poetry has proven itself to be extremely vital and incisive, while the images of horror connected to the Troubles has moved beyond the references to Civil War to a metaphysical space capable of reflecting universal human suffering. Crivelli dedicates a significant portion of his essay to women writers (Eavan Boland, Eilean Ni Chuilleanàin, Sarah Berkeley and Medbh MacGuckian), and describes the evolution in self-representation by women poets after the movements of the 1980's. Special attention is given to the new and interesting phenomenon of women's Irish language poetry, which challenges the submissive view of women in the Irish tradition (re de Valera's famous speech) and creates new spaces for dialogue with the dominant male vision, in the context of a renewed female emancipation. The major significance of contemporary Irish Theatre is underscored by Fiorenzo Fantaccini, who begins with the rebirth of the Abbey and Belfast Lyric Theatres after 20 years of obscurantism and censorship and moves on to examine the works of playwrights such as Brian Friel in the North (influenced by Cechov) and Thomas Kilroy, Tom Murphy and Sebastian Barry in the South, writers who have brought to the stage contemporary Irish issues such as emigration, the loss of identity and the break-up of the family, in a context (also linguistic) of marginalisation. In the fifth and final section, Silvia De Rosa examines the Irish Short Story, a form which thanks to its ability to narrate in a private and intimate way the microcosm of rural culture and the minimalist lives of common people, is innate to Irish literature as a whole. Taking her departure from the generation of the so-called 'Three O's' (O'Faolain, O'Connor, O'Flaherty) De Rosa analyses more recent authors such as Benedict Kiely, Gerry Adams and David Park, with a special section dedicated to the father of the Irish Short Story and author of numerous short story collections: William Trevor. In her view, the Irish short story begins to change in the 1980's with writers such as Evelyn Conlon, Claire Boylan and Mary Morissy, who shifted the focus from the customary rural settings towards the psychological analysis of relations between the sexes, also in the context of the family. Authors such Aidan Mathews, Michael Collins and John McKenna prefer new urban settings for their stories, and treat issues typical of the world of adolescence, such as sexual emancipation and drugs. Letteratura Irlandese Contemporanea, which is the first study of its kind in Italy (and perhaps in the English-speaking world as well), is a clearly written and useful reference work. It its extremely informative, has an excellent analytical index of authors and titles, and provides an extensive bibliography which is divided into both general and specific topics. It is intended for both the specialist in Irish studies and university students in general, as well as the many devoted readers of Irish literature in Italy, who for years have read with love and attention the dozens of Irish works translated by major Italian publishers. L'eccezionale fioritura di autori irlandesi negli ultimi vent'anni ha imposto all'attenzione di critica e pubblico un numero assai vasto di scrittori. In Italia, inoltre, per ragioni di affinità culturale, si è assistito di recente a un vero boom editoriale di romanzieri e poeti irlandesi. Ecco dunque la necessità di fornire a studiosi, studenti universitari e appassionati una storia della letteratura irlandese a partire dalla nascita della Repubblica d'Irlanda, insistendo dunque sulla contemporaneità. Il libro, che si avvale di una vasta bibliografia utilissima a chi si interessi di studi specifici, spazia nelle sue cinque ripartizioni – romanzo del Sud, romanzo del Nord, poesia, teatro, short story – fino a fornire una visione d'insieme della produzione letteraria irlandese dal 1940 ai giorni nostri. Oltre a un'accurata presentazione degli autori principali, il volume offre una ricostruzione, coagulata intorno ad alcune "isole" tematiche, dei movimenti culturali di maggior rilievo, coniugando indagine critica e informazione con scientificità e accuratezza.
James Joyce: itinerari triestini - James Joyce: Triestine Itinerariesby Renzo S. CrivelliAvailable at: http://www.mgspress.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?area=James_JoyceQuesto libro ricostruisce gli anni triestini di Joyce, dal 1904 al 1915 e dal 1919 al 1920, così cruciali per la sua crescita letteraria, avvalendosi anche di inedite testimonianze, di documenti, di nuove verifiche anagrafiche e catastali, e si pone come un utile strumento di visitazione dei luoghi più rilevanti della quotidianità, del lavoro, delle relazioni sociali e "ludiche" del grande scrittore. Cartine, mappe, percorsi sono tracciati in una geografia reale – ma anche spirituale – ad uso dell'appassionato che cerchi un'immedesimazione emotiva nella Trieste di inizio secolo, dove è stato ultimato Dedalus, è stato scritto il dramma Esuli, è stato concepito l'Ulisse e dove ha visto la luce il poemetto in prosa Giacomo Joyce, l'unico testo joyciano di ambientazione locale. In reconstructing Joyce's Triestine years, 1904-1915 and 1919-1920, so crucial to his literary growth, this book also avails of unpublished sources, of documents, of newly-checked data from the registry offices, and offers itself as a useful guide to the places most relevant to the great writer's daily life, his work, his social and "recreational" relationships. Maps and routes trace a geography at once physical and spiritual to help the interested party in his search for an emotional self-identification with the Trieste of the beginning of this century, the Trieste where A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was finished, the play Exiles was written, Ulysses was conceived, and the prose-poem Giacomo Joyce first saw the light, the only Joycean work set in Trieste. ADVANCED CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR JAMES JOYCE: TRIESTINE ITINERARIES / ITINERARI TRIESTINI"This book contains the fullest account so far available of Joyce's years in Trieste […].The value of this book is not just biographical: Joyce did write about places other than Dublin and in particular he wrote about places in Trieste. Particularly welcome in this connection are the many photographs of old Trieste in this volume, photographs which bring into sharp focus the context in which the artist continued to develop and Ulysses was begun". (Terence Killeen, The Irish Times, 1.3.97). "James Joyce: Triestine Itineraries is an ideal guide for any cultural tourist following in Joyce's steps. The book, written in both Italian and English, provides a detailed recostruction of Joyce's life in this border city from 1904 to 1915 and from 1919 to 1920, illustrated with maps and photos of the most significant places associated with him". (European Bookseller, no 19, December 1996). "In Crivelli's work the city of Trieste is never taken for granted. Crivelli's love for Trieste and its history emerges from nearly every page of his James Joyce: Triestine Itineraries, as well as his interest in architecture, which gives the accurate and detailed reconstruction of the maps of of Joyce's Trieste the flavour of maps of memory. […] The merit of this book, besides the quantity of either new or newly arranged material, lies mainly in its capacity to recapture the setting of a crucial period of Joyce's life and to make his ambivalent relationships with Trieste and its people forcefully emerge". (Review by Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, The James Joyce Literary Supplement, Spring 1998). 
The Years of Bloomby John McCourtWinner of the Premio Comisso in Italy for Best Biography 2004.Available at:
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