{"title":"\"I Have Been a Perfect Pig\": A Semiosis of Swine in \"Circe\"","authors":"Eric D. Smith","doi":"10.1353/JOY.2002.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JOY.2002.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the popularity of Bakhtinian approaches to Joyce’s works in the 1980s and early ’90s, there has been in recent years an increasing dissatisfaction with what is often perceived as the privileging of social and political relativity within Bakhtin’s body of theory that allegedly elides questions of class, race, and history with celebratory notions of the inherently dialogized utterance and the impossibility of true monologism. The putative ahistoricism of Bakhtinian theory has led, predictably, to a criticism of its popular application in Joyce studies. As M. Keith Booker has it in his “Ulysses,” Capitalism, and Colonialism: Reading Joyce After the Cold War, many recent “political” readings of Joyce which deploy Bakhtin as a point of departure are concerned with revealing Joyce’s interest in and engagement with popular culture in an effort to dismantle the formerly dominant critical view of Joyce characterized by an “elitist and aestheticist hermeticism” (35). While the best of these “liberal” Bakhtinian readings are commendable for their recuperation of Joyce as a functioning member of his society, indeed as a political writer, Booker suggests that in focusing their analyses exclusively upon the heteroglossic nature of Joyce’s work, they may also inadvertently assume a position which is “suspiciously close to the liberal humanist notion that variety is inherently good and that good things will automatically happen when multiple voices are allowed to sound” (35). In short, some argue that Bakhtinian analyses of Joyce often come dangerously close to positing a closed system of universal (read western) aesthetics—which disregards political realities—much like the New Critical regime which they sought to displace. Peter Hitchcock warns those who invoke","PeriodicalId":330014,"journal":{"name":"Joyce Studies Annual","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132079163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recognizing Masochism: Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Sexual Submission in Ulysses","authors":"Thomas P. Balázs","doi":"10.1353/JOY.2002.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JOY.2002.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":330014,"journal":{"name":"Joyce Studies Annual","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127737217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The New York James Joyce Society","authors":"Z. Bowen","doi":"10.1353/JOY.2001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JOY.2001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"As a married graduate teaching assistant with a child and working on a masters degree in English, my principal income in 1958 was only about twenty percent of what it had been in my former calling, the used car business. What psychic income there was in the automobile business died with my father the year after I got my B.A., and when I returned to graduate school, I needed even more urgently to continue working part time as a singer and producer of radio commercials until I could land a full-time teaching job. At Temple University I took Joyce with Mabel Worthington, who at the time was working on an index for her co-authored book with Matthew Hodgart, Song in the Works of James Joyce. Since I had access to a studio in the Temple University radio station on Tuesday nights (making singing commercials for the Clements agency), and to professional Philadelphia actors who could do Irish accents, I offered to make a demonstration tape of a chapter of Ulysses with the actual music referred to in the text as background for Bloom’s thoughts. Mabel agreed to accept it in lieu of a term paper and I was on the way to a career glossing Joyce’s musical references. When I completed the M.A. at Temple I got a job at the State University of New York, College of Fredonia, and a scholarship to complete my Ph.D. at Buffalo, a major Joyce manuscript repository, where I was privileged to work with Tom Connolly. Fredonia’s specialty in the New York State system was music, and many of its undergraduates were card-carrying members of either the musicians union or the American Guild of Variety Artists. The campus radio station was right next door to my office, and after I smoozed around for a month or so with the student staff and faculty director, I thought","PeriodicalId":330014,"journal":{"name":"Joyce Studies Annual","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131554110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dublin in the Time of Joyce","authors":"Ken Monaghan","doi":"10.1353/JOY.2001.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JOY.2001.0009","url":null,"abstract":"I was born in 1925 and grew up in an Ireland that was not greatly different to the country from which James Joyce and Nora Barnacle fled on 8 October, 1904. True, there were changes. We had achieved an independence of sorts from England and twenty-six of the thirtytwo counties in the country were now governed from Dublin. The umbilical cord, however, had not been cut and six northern counties remained and still remain under British rule which has resulted in the festering sore that is Northern Ireland today. We had also experienced a particularly vicious civil war between the forces who, after the war of independence, supported the Treaty with England and those who opposed it. The civil war left bitter memories and divisions and these memories and divisions had an enormous and almost cataclysmic effect on the social and political life of the country until comparatively recent times. During this period when we were slowly coming to terms with the difficulties of governing ourselves and running the country, there was mass unemployment and grinding poverty for a large portion of the population, and the way of life was determined more than ever by the dictates of an autocratic Catholic Church. We had adopted existing British laws and taken on board their civil service and judicial systems and the only real difference was in the people who occupied the positions of power within these systems. The minions of the British Government were replaced by members of the emerging Catholic middle class who looked for leadership and guidance to the hierarchy of that same Church. Molly Ivors and her friends had come into their inheritance. In 1932, after a General Election won by Fianna Fail, the political wing of the anti-treaty Forces in the Civil War, Eamonn de Valera became Taoiseach or Prime Minister, a position he was to hold for an","PeriodicalId":330014,"journal":{"name":"Joyce Studies Annual","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122417566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}