James Joyce And The Burden Of Disease

Author : Kathleen Ferris
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184533
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Joyce and the Burden of Disease written by Kathleen Ferris and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce's near blindness, his peculiar gait, and his death from perforated ulcers are commonplace knowledge to most of his readers. But until now, most Joyce scholars have not recognized that these symptoms point to a diagnosis of syphilis. Kathleen Ferris traces Joyce's medical history as described in his correspondence, in the diaries of his brother Stanislaus, and in the memoirs of his acquaintances, to show that many of his symptoms match those of tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis which, untreated, eventually leads to paralysis. Combining literary analysis and medical detection, Ferris builds a convincing case that this dread disease is the subject of much of Joyce's autobiographical writing. Many of this characters, most notably Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, exhibit the same symptoms as their creator: stiffness of gait, digestive problems, hallucinations, and impaired vision. Ferris also demonstrates that the themes of sin, guilt, and retribution so prevalent in Joyce's works are almost certainly a consequence of his having contracted venereal disease as a young man while frequenting the brothels of Dublin and Paris. By tracing the images, puns, and metaphors in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and by demonstrating their relationship to Joyce's experiences, Ferris shows the extent to which, for Joyce, art did indeed mirror life.

Author : Morton P. Levitt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815629306
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joyce and the Joyceans written by Morton P. Levitt and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers a variety of subjects and approaches by some of the major figures of Joyce criticism and scholarship, as well as new and upcoming Joyceans. Its scope is among the very broadest of such collections and the most up-to-date. Unique to this book is a series of personal essays describing some pivotal events in the international study of Joyce, including the beginnings of the Joyce Foundation and Symposia. Contributors include: Fritz Senn, Thomas F. Staley, Morris Beja, Ira B. Nadel, Michael Groden, Jean-Michel Rabate, William S. Brockman, R. Brandon Kershner, Peter A. Maguire, Patrick J Ledden, Jason Howard Mezey, John Gordon, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Richard Beckman, Corinna del Greco Lobner, Michael Gooch, Morton P. Levitt

Author : Gordon Bowker
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374178720
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Joyce written by Gordon Bowker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing new biography of James Joyce--the first in more than fifty years--of one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures, complete with new material that has only recently come to light.

Author : R. Norburn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230595448
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A James Joyce Chronology written by R. Norburn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-05-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author Chronologies Series aims to provide a means whereby the precise chronological facts of an author's life and career can be seen at a glance. This chronology provides a synopsis of Joyce's first years in Dublin and, from 1900, a more detailed account of his life there and attempts to become established as a writer when living mainly in Trieste and Zurich; and finally (when he became world-famous) Paris, concluding with his death in 1941.

Author : John P. Anderson
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781581127621
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Joy in Joyce written by John P. Anderson and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed reader's guide to James Joyce's masterwork Ulysses, voted the most important novel of the 20th century. The guide provides episode by episode an in depth explanation of the action and symbolism, including a description of the related books of Homer's Odyssey and the correspondences. This guide is designed to give the user the keys to the kingdom of one of the wonders of Western civilization. The non-academic author, a retired lawyer and life long Joyce reader, brings new approaches to find the deep meaning of each of Joyce's episodes and the novel as a whole. The scope of this effort, the complete Joyce, is unique in an area monopolized by more narrowly focused academics. The analysis elucidates Joyce's technique to mimic patterns in history and nature in his architecture of coherence. His medicine for the diseased spirit of our age is a custom blend of Jesus and Buddha, not as they are marketed by institutional religions, but as they lived their lives as humans. Joyce's god is more possibilities in life and art, and this guide will do that for you.

Author : Kathryn Conrad
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654480
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism written by Kathryn Conrad and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that “the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula,” the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change. The collection spotlights authors ranging from James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O’Brien, and Samuel Beckett to less-studied writers like Emily Lawless, John Eglinton, Denis Johnston, and Lennox Robinson. With chapters on naturalism, futurism, dynamite, gramophones, uncertainty, astronomy, automobiles, and more, this book showcases the far-reaching scope and complexity of Irish writers’ engagement with innovations in science and technology. Taken together, the fifteen original essays in Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism map a new literary landscape of Ireland in the twentieth century. By focusing on writers’ often-ignored interest in science and technology, this book uncovers shared concerns between revivalists, modernists, and late modernists that challenge us to rethink how we categorize and periodize Irish literature.

Author : Deborah Hayden
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786724137
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pox written by Deborah Hayden and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Beethoven experiencing syphilitic euphoria when he composed "Ode to Joy"? Did van Gogh paint "Crows Over the Wheatfield" in a fit of diseased madness right before he shot himself? Was syphilis a stowaway on Columbus's return voyage to Europe? The answers to these provocative questions are likely "yes," claims Deborah Hayden in this riveting investigation of the effects of the "Pox" on the lives and works of world figures from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. Writing with remarkable insight and narrative flair, Hayden argues that biographers and historians have vastly underestimated the influence of what Thomas Mann called "this exhilarating yet wasting disease." Shrouded in secrecy, syphilis was accompanied by wild euphoria and suicidal depression, megalomania and paranoia, profoundly affecting sufferers' worldview, their sexual behavior and personality, and, of course, their art. Deeply informed and courageously argued, Pox has already been heralded as a major contribution to our understanding of genius, madness, and creativity.

Author : Jibu George
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443894168
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ulysses Quotīdiānus written by Jibu George and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a multi-pronged inverse historical analysis of Joyce’s high-modernist magnum opus Ulysses, foregrounding the historicity of its unapologetic subject matter – the quotidian. It argues that the everyday life depicted in Ulysses espouses alternative historical trajectories neglected by traditional historiographic paradigms, which largely deal with great personages and momentous events. The sphere of ordinary life is also where lasting changes must be accomplished if transformations are to happen at all in what gets written or accepted as a posteriori ‘history.’ Across eight elaborate chapters, the book reconstructs quotidian ‘micro-histories’ surrounding work and income, material objects and practices, everyday relationships, body and health, ideologies and power, socio-psychological resources, and, in one of the many internal heterogenizations of the everyday, gender issues.

Author : Patrick A. McCarthy
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185343
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joyce/Lowry written by Patrick A. McCarthy and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While James Joyce was a central figure of high modernism, Malcom Lowry spoke for the next generation of modernist writers and, despite his denials, was almost certainly influenced by Joyce. Wherever the truth lies, there are correspondences and differences to be explored between Joyce and Lowry that are far more interesting than the question of direct influence. Despite numerous differences, their works have much in common: verbal richness, experimentation with narrative structure and perspective, a fascination with cultural and historical forces as well as with the process of artistic creation, and the inclusion of artist figures who are in varying degrees ironic self-portrayals. The contributors to Joyce/Lowry examine the relationship of these two expatriates writers, both to each other and to broader issues in the study of literary modernism and its aftermath. This collection embraces a variety of approaches. The volume begins with a consideration of Joyce and Lowry as practitioners of Expressionist art and concludes with an essay on John Huston's cinematic interpretation of works by both writers. In between are explorations of nationalism, anti-Semitism, syphilis, mental illness, and authorial design.

Author : Claire A. Culleton
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299143848
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Names and Naming in Joyce written by Claire A. Culleton and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly work exploring James Joyce's choice of names in his fiction, with consideration of history, politics, gender, and literary consequences, and the symbiotic ties among the four. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR