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{"title":"The Mismeasure of Bloom: Sandow, Folklore, Scientific Racism, Eugenics","authors":"A. Briggs","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay addresses ways in which Bloom is mismeasured by himself and by others. The ideal set by Eugen Sandow, \"the perfect man,\" establishes a physical standard Leopold Bloom can only fail to meet; the Citizen and other barflies in \"Cyclops,\" as well as Bloom's projections of Buck Mulligan and others in \"Circe,\" claim variously that he is demented, deformed, and diseased. Such cruel diagnoses reflect anti-Semitic and anti-Gaelic prejudices deriving from folklore, scientific racism, and eugenics. Because the physical and psychological failings attributed to Bloom—some of them positively lunatic in nature—are so comically exaggerated, we are brought to appreciate Bloom's value. Declared repeatedly to be abnormal and even subnormal, he expands our sense of what normal is.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46969012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pride, Covetousness, and Hypocrisy: James Joyce's Gnomonologies from \"Grace\" to \"The Sisters\"","authors":"Kwan Lok Cheung","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:\"[G]nomon,\" one of the three italicized words James Joyce substituted for \"Providence\" in rewriting \"The Sisters\" as the introductory chapter of Dubliners, has engrossed readers with its implications for probing his artistic intentions, practices, and experiments. Expanding on the term's definition in geometry, interpretations of \"gnomon\" have informed approaches to his epicleti with highlights of thematic embodiments, textual gaps, and structural arrangements. Parallelism on an intertextual level, however, remains an underexplored perspective. Explanations of the enigmas in \"The Sisters,\" I argue, are encrypted within the textual hiatuses in \"Grace.\" Upon replenishment of the narrative gaps in both stories, it becomes clear that Thomas Kernan and Father Purdon mirror the boy-narrator and Father Flynn in the unfolding of their simoniac schemes. Moments that disclose consciousness point to \"pride\" and \"covetousness,\" two capital sins in Catholic doctrines, as the roots of their moral-spiritual paralysis and make the hypocrisy in their instrumental appropriation of religion explicit. The absent corner of gnomon represents not only the consciousness-revealing textual apertures but also the inner voids Dubliners with a paralytic conscience scheme to mask. With \"The Sisters\" and \"Grace\" offering projections of Joyce's most prototypical specimens, \"gnomon\" fits into the italicized triad as a trope for the vantage points required to perceive \"paralysis,\" \"simony,\" and \"Providence\" through the anamorphosis of his \"nicely polished looking-glass.\"","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47583931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade by Samantha Barbas (review)","authors":"J. M. Hassett","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"M Ernst (1888-1976) was the lawyer who developed and presented arguments that won judicial determinations that James Joyce’s novel Ulysses was not obscene. These victories fundamentally changed the law of obscenity in both the United States and England and established authors’ right to present the world as they saw it. Ernst’s life merits this wide-ranging and fascinating biography by an author with the impressive credentials of Samantha Barbas, who holds a doctorate in history from Berkeley, a law degree from Stanford, and a professorship at the University at Buffalo School of Law. As told in this biography, Ernst’s life is a testament to what an individual can accomplish through talent, hard work, and a desire to make public and private institutions deliver a better and freer life for everyone. Barbas shows how Ernst used his considerable abilities to advocate for social reform and civil liberties in court, before legislative bodies, on committees, in the press, during dinners, and on many other occasions. He was a whirlwind. Barbas deftly situates Ernst’s accomplishments in the context of the social and political history of his times. Reviewing the book foregrounds the problem faced by one of Ernst’s contemporaries in trying to write about him: “There are too many facets, too many angles, and I keep floundering around simply trying to decide which one to grab at next” (292).1 This review deals with the problem by focusing primarily on a subject in which readers of this publication will be particularly interested: the book’s account of the Ulysses litigation. The subject merits careful attention because the struggle for authorial freedom is never over, and the arguments that worked for Ulysses will be needed again. Those that failed should be avoided. In this context, Barbas’s treatment of litigation forming the backdrop against which Ernst achieved his victories is troubling. The earlier case arose in 1920 out of the publication of episodes of Ulysses in The Little Review. The magazine’s editors, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, were prosecuted on obscenity charges in a New York City court for publishing part of episode XIII, in which Leopold Bloom ejaculates while looking at Gerty MacDowell’s exposed “nainsook knickers.”2 Barbas’s authoritative voice tells readers that New York attorney John Quinn made a “persuasive argument” by urging that “Ulysses was so dense and convoluted that no one could possibly understand it, much less be debauched by it” (152). James Joyce Quarterly 59.4 2022","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42957701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Brian Tweedy: An Officer But Not a Gentleman","authors":"Peter Fishback","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Modern commentators on the Ulysses character Brian Tweedy question his stated military rank of Major and conclude either that Joyce intended this person to have posed as a former commissioned officer or that Tweedy's actual rank in the British Army is one of the novel's intractable enigmas, like \"who was M'Intosh?\" Shortly before publication of the complete novel, Joyce wrote to his Aunt Josephine that Major Malachi Powell was the model for the Tweedy character. Official records show that the British army commissioned Powell from the ranks, and, in retirement, the colony of South Australia commissioned him as a full-time militia officer. He left such colonial service with the honorary rank of Major in the militia's reserve. More importantly, the novel's narrative shows that \"Old Tweedy\" had to have held the Queen's commission. The life led by Tweedy and his daughter in Gibraltar and late-Victorian Dublin is incompatible with his being a non-commissioned officer, either a \"Drum-Major\" or warrant officer (Sergeant-Major or Bandmaster). Furthermore, many facets of Molly Bloom's character show that her father was more than a common soldier. Indeed, she has many of the unpleasant characteristics of stereotypical Victorian middle-class women of working-class origin. Hopefully, this essay answers conclusively the question of Brian Tweedy's army rank first posed in the late 1970s.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46469728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Waiting for Gabriel\": A Review of Epiphany, a One-Act play by Brian Watkins, the American Premiere at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, 26 May-24 July 2022","authors":"R. Gerber","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Samuel Beckett might have been pleased. But Joyce . . . well, not so much. Like Godot in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Gabriel Conroy is a no-show in Brian Watkins’s one-act play Epiphany, a riff on Joyce’s short story “The Dead,” which had its American premiere at Lincoln Center in New York this past summer. The world premiere was presented by the Druid Theatre Company of Galway, Ireland, back in 2019. As long as Gabriel was not appearing, however, the producers might have spared American audiences this play, as well as the trip across the Atlantic. While Gabriel’s non-appearance is one of several clever and intriguing ideas in the play, it is not the only thing missing from this re-visioning of “The Dead.” There is no mention of Joyce’s story in the publicity or the playbill for Epiphany. And, while the acting is generally adequate, aside from the AWOL Gabriel and a tepid Freddy Malins, none of the characters in this play carry the names, recite the lines, nor retain other attributes of the figures we are all so familiar with in “The Dead.” Aunt Kate, for instance, is renamed just “Morkan,” and she is the central figure here. None of this matters since audiences are blissfully unaware of Epiphany’s connections with “The Dead” anyway; Joyce would probably have been happy with that. The dialogue that has been substituted in this play for his elegiac language can only, ironically, be described in one word: deadly. Most of the conversation in Epiphany consists of solipsistic philosophizing, sophomoric psychologizing, and handwringing blather, especially by Morkan. That all said, it is relevant to recall that “The Dead” has served as inspiration for multiple reputable versions, ranging from a movie to a musical, and even an opera and more. Each of these has had its strong points and points that were less strong. So a brief account of some of the more interesting aspects of Epiphany that are related to “The Dead”—not the story line itself, really, nor the dialogue—might best serve readers of this review. The almost-in-the-round Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater affords the entire audience an opportunity easily to view all the actors as they make their way in and out and around the stage. Many of the characters’ lines are spoken simultaneously, however, so, while they can always be seen, they cannot always be heard over one another. The set","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42313294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Whiteness and Identity in Dubliners","authors":"Ellen Scheible","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:From an overt engagement with orientalism in \"Araby\" to the subtle discourse of blackness in \"The Dead,\" Joyce's short-story collection, Dubliners, offers readers a multidimensional perspective on the overlapping discourses of race, class, and colonialism that defined Irishness in early-twentieth-century Dublin. This essay considers Joyce's canonical collection through the lens of a post-Celtic-Tiger understanding of race, where difference is an unavoidable and necessary component in discussions of contemporary Irish identity. Just as William Shakespeare's fools ironically invoke elemental words of wisdom, one character's drunken questions about American blackness at the dinner table in \"The Dead\" and the unspoken resistance to racial diversity in the paralytic lifestyles of Joyce's other characters point us to one of many prophetic moments in Joyce's work: a diagnosis of an Ireland that cannot move forward into modernity without recognizing the multiplicity of cultural voices that overtly challenge nationalist calls for a unified declaration of Irish identity.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46035695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Out of Print: Mediating Information in the Novel and the Book by Julia Panko (review)","authors":"H. McGregor","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0039","url":null,"abstract":"7 See the 12 September 1933 letter to the Honorable John M. Woolsey in Michael Moscato and Leslie LeBlanc, eds., The United States of American v. One Book Entitled “Ulysses” by James Joyce (Frederick, Md.: Univ. Publications of America, 1984), p. 225. 8 United States v. One Book Entitled Ulysses, 72 F.2d 705. 2d Cir. 1934. 9 Clare Hutton, Serial Encounters: “Ulysses” and “The Little Review” (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019). 10 Robert Spoo, Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing and the Public Domain (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013), p. 86. 11 See Samuel Walker, In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1990), pp. 333-34, and Curt Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), p. 440.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45664257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Current JJ Checklist (141)","authors":"W. Brockman","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2021.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2021.0040","url":null,"abstract":"We thank the contributors to this number of the “Current Checklist”: Sabrina Alonso, Richard Barlow, Michael Cunningham, Kazuhiro Doki, Richard Gerber, James Maynard, Patrick O’Neill, Erik Schneider, and Fritz Senn. The entire retrospective James Joyce Checklist, hosted since 2008 by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, compiles citations from earlier issues of JJQ and provides extensive coverage of editions, criticism, and research dating back to Joyce’s lifetime. This resource is available at <https://norman.hrc. utexas.edu/jamesjoycechecklist/>. Please send contributions or suggestions to your bibliographer at w.s.brockman@gmail.com.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48489637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"James Joyce and the Writing of the Tomb","authors":"Craig Buckwald","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:James Joyce's well-known remark that the puzzles and enigmas of Ulysses could ensure his \"immortality\" points to a central but largely unrecognized aspect of his two big books and, to a lesser extent, of all literature. Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are examples par excellence of how literary works are inherently a defiant response to mortality in its most capacious sense, as the transitory condition of all people and things. The two works defy mortality by performing with extraordinary effectiveness the memorializing and symbolic functions performed by \"tombs\" of all types. Seeing Ulysses and the Wake in this way challenges some widely held beliefs about Joyce's art. It also allows us to understand the works anthropologically, as essentially funerary artifacts that, in conjunction with \"ritual\" activities, both preserve traditional civilized order, values, and thought and selectively reforge them for the modern world.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47476362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Almighty Dirt\": A Report on \"Caliban's Mirror: The 2022 Wilde and Joyce Symposium,\" Trinity College Dublin, 5-7 May 2022","authors":"James Green","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"For the first time in around three years, I attended an in-person conference. Instead of an abrupt transition from the world of online symposia, this move into the reality of dear dirty Dublin felt, thankfully, smooth and natural. The first thing to say about “Caliban’s Mirror: The 2022 Wilde and Joyce Symposium” is that the conference could easily not have happened at all. Obstacles facing speakers included visa problems and an ongoing global pandemic, and panels as advertised on the website had to be changed as and when needs arose, calling for altruism from one attendee, Jinan Ashraf, who volunteered to move her paper on Joyce’s influence on Indian modernism to one of the final panels. That the conference went ahead at all is due to the heroic efforts of its organizers, Casey Lawrence and Graham Price, with assistance from Sam Slote, who managed to put it together while not being in the country, for example, and even picked up a dislocated knee right on the eve of the conference. The second thing to note is that, despite being the first conference to focus specifically on the connections between Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, it felt entirely right that such a comparison be made. In fact, multiple attendees noted almost immediately that it is surprising such a conference had not happened sooner. Joyce treated the topic of Wilde in his Trieste lecture “La Poetà di Salome” and his A Portrait echoes, at least in title, Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray. The two cultivated a dandyish public persona and foregrounded questions of aesthetics in their work. In light of the difficulties raised by the conference gods, all who attended remain grateful to the organizers and fate itself to allow us to talk about this subject at length. The conference also was marred by the shocking loss of John Paul Riquelme, who was due to give a fascinating paper on Wilde’s use of Platonic dialogues in his critical essays, echoed in Joyce’s “Scylla and Charybdis.” The abstract he submitted is available to view on the conference website, making it likely his final published work. Noting his generosity and enthusiasm, Graham and Casey fondly dedicated the conference to his memory. But his paper showed the richness and queerness of the comparisons to be made between these two bodies of work. On the first day, there was a panel on such queer comparisons: Michael F. Davis queered the complex genealogy of “The Dead” by looking at Wilde’s and Anatole France’s depictions of Judea in Salomé and The Procurator of Judea, Maureen de Leo considered Wilde’s and Joyce’s shared silences over homosexuality, while Tim Ziaukas and","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47439793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}