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M Ernst(1888-1976)是一位律师,他提出并提出的论点赢得了司法裁决,即詹姆斯·乔伊斯的小说《尤利西斯》不淫秽。这些胜利从根本上改变了美国和英国的淫秽法律,并确立了作者呈现世界的权利。恩斯特的一生值得一位拥有萨曼莎·巴巴斯(Samantha Barbas)令人印象深刻资历的作家撰写这本内容广泛、引人入胜的传记,以及布法罗大学法学院的教授职位。正如这本传记中所说,恩斯特的一生证明了一个人可以通过天赋、辛勤工作以及让公共和私人机构为每个人提供更好、更自由生活的愿望来取得成就。Barbas展示了Ernst如何在法庭上、立法机构面前、委员会上、新闻界、晚宴上以及许多其他场合利用自己的巨大能力倡导社会改革和公民自由。他是个旋风。巴巴斯巧妙地将恩斯特的成就置于他所处时代的社会和政治历史背景下。回顾这本书突出了恩斯特同时代的一位读者在试图写他的作品时所面临的问题:“有太多的方面,太多的角度,我一直在挣扎,只是想决定下一步该抓住哪一个”(292)书中对尤利西斯诉讼的描述。这个主题值得仔细关注,因为争取作者自由的斗争永远不会结束,对尤利西斯有效的论点将再次被需要。那些失败的应该避免。在这种背景下,巴巴斯对诉讼的处理构成了恩斯特取得胜利的背景,这令人不安。早期的案例发生在1920年,《小评论》刊登了《尤利西斯》的几集。该杂志的编辑玛格丽特·安德森(Margaret Anderson)和简·希普(Jane Heap。“2 Barbas的权威声音告诉读者,纽约律师约翰·奎因提出了一个“有说服力的论点”,他敦促“尤利西斯是如此密集和复杂,没有人可能理解它,更不用说被它放纵了”(152)。James Joyce季刊59.4 2022
The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade by Samantha Barbas (review)
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
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Founded in 1963 at the University of Tulsa by Thomas F. Staley, the James Joyce Quarterly has been the flagship journal of international Joyce studies ever since. In each issue, the JJQ brings together a wide array of critical and theoretical work focusing on the life, writing, and reception of James Joyce. We encourage submissions of all types, welcoming archival, historical, biographical, and critical research. Each issue of the JJQ provides a selection of peer-reviewed essays representing the very best in contemporary Joyce scholarship. In addition, the journal publishes notes, reviews, letters, a comprehensive checklist of recent Joyce-related publications, and the editor"s "Raising the Wind" comments.