Journal of Modern Literature articles from January 2011

Journal of Modern Literature archives from January 2011

Misperceiving Virginia Woolf.(Report)
January 1, 2011... Frederic Jameson has argued: "The most influential formal impulses of canonical modernism have been strategies of inwardness" (2). The literary impressionism of Conrad and Ford, the stream of consciousness of Richardson and Joyce and the...

"Circe" and surrealism: Joyce and the Avant-Garde.(James Joyce)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2011... Bloom's bodyguards distribute Maundy money, commemoration medals, loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives in sealed envelopes tied with gold thread, butter scotch, pineapple...

A work whose importance still escapes us: Joyce after surrealism.(James Joyce)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2011... One of the more compelling counterfactuals regarding the political resonance of modernist literature is the sentiment--attributed to Joyce himself but presumably apocryphal--that if everyone had read Finnegans Wake there would have been no...

Waking Europa: Joyce, Ferrero and the metamorphosis of Irish history.(Report)
January 1, 2011... The influence that the Italian historian Guglielmo Ferrero (1871-1942) exerted on James Joyce has not been adequately assessed. This unfortunate state of affairs is largely due to the fact that Ferrero, once an internationally known and...

Paranoid modernism in Joyce and Kafka.(James Joyce and Franz Kafka)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2011... In recent years, paranoia has become nothing less than a paradigm for the reevaluation of modernism and modernity. David Trotter gave currency to the term "paranoid modernism" in his 2001 study of the English novelists Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham...

James Joyce as philosopher and theologian of time.(The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida)(Book review)
January 1, 2011... Ruben Borg. The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida. New York: Continuum, 2008. ix, 160 pp. $120 cloth. James Joyce once offered the cryptic suggestion that the hero of Finnegans Wake is "time." In The Measureless Time of Joyce,...

Joyce's loss of faith.(Help My Unbelief: James Joyce and Religion)(Book review)
January 1, 2011... Geert Lernout. Help My Unbelief: James Joyce and Religion. New York: Continuum, 2010. vi-239, 241 pp. $120.00 cloth; $34.95 paper. When--and to what degree--James Joyce lost his faith in the Roman Catholic Church specifically, or Christian...

E. E. Cummings's Tom: A Ballet and Uncle Tom's doll-dance of modernism.(Essay)
January 1, 2011... "The play's the thing" but Cummings is not a play-boy, he means what he dances. --WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, "E.E. CUMMINGS' PAINTINGS AND POEMS" Experimentalism notwithstanding, some modernist dramas betray lingering investments in the...

Cosmopolitanism at home: Ireland's Playboys from Celtic Revival to Celtic Tiger.(Report)
January 1, 2011... When Christy Mahon pronounces himself "master of all fights from now" at the end of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World and departs for a "romping" unbound future, his declaration is as cosmopolitan as it is nationalist and...

"What it is to have been": Bergson and Beckett on movement, multiplicity and representation.(Henri Bergson and Samuel Beckett)(Essay)
January 1, 2011... I can at turns imagine a nought of external perception or a nought of internal perception, but not both at once, for the absence of one consists, at bottom, in the exclusive presence of the other. --Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution 303 I...

Bounding the self: ethics, anxiety and territories of personhood in Samuel Beckett's fiction.(Report)
January 1, 2011... Critics studying Beckett's fiction have devoted much attention to the strangely detached, precarious consciousnesses of his characters. Most critical work has gone to describing how these consciousnesses appear to the reader, and how our...

Joyce's early aesthetic.(James Joyce)(Essay)
January 1, 2011... I wish to revisit an aspect of Joyce's work that was repeatedly, indeed repetitively, analyzed during the early years of Joyce scholarship, but that has elicited meager interest in recent decades. I propose to analyze, textually and...

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
January 1, 2011... Last December, I was asked to give a talk in Glasgow at the conference organized by the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, whose topic was "In or about December 1910." The decision to focus on Virginia Woolf's famous statement from her essay...