This book contains eighteen original essays by leading Joyce
scholars on the eighteen separate chapters of Ulysses. It
attempts to explore the richness of Joyce's extraordinary novel
more fully than ...could be done by any single scholar. Joyce's habit
of using, when writing each chapter in Ulysses, a
particular style, tone, point of view, and narrative structure
gives each contributor a special set of problems with which to
engage, problems which coincide in every case with certain of his
special interests. The essays in this volume complement and
illuminate one another to provide the most comprehensive account
yet published of Joyce's many-sided masterpiece.
In this book-one of the first ecocritical explorations of Irish literature-Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent ...engagement with nature. Using genetic criticism to investigate Joyce's source texts, notebooks, and proofs, Lacivita shows how Joyce developed ecological themes in Finnegans Wake over successive drafts.
Making apparent a love of growing things and a lively connection with the natural world across his texts, Lacivita's approach reveals Joyce's keen attention to the Irish landscape, meteorology, urban planning, Dublin's ecology, the exploitation of nature, and fertility and reproduction. Alison Lacivita unearths a vital quality of Joyce's work that has largely gone undetected, decisively aligning ecocriticism with both modernism and Irish studies.
When James Joyce's Ulysses was first published in America,
it quickly became a dynamic symbol of both modern art and the
modern age. Jeffrey Segall skillfully demonstrates how various
political, ...ideological, and religious allegiances influenced the
critical reception and eventual canonization of what is perhaps the
twentieth century's greatest novel. In re-creating the polemical
debates that erupted, Segall provides a dramatic reminder of just
how challenging and controversial Ulysses was-and is.
Seventy years after Ulysses was first banned, the novel
remains at the center of contemporary debates among feminist,
neo-Marxist, and poststructuralist critics. Segall allows us the
opportunity to view Ulysses from the perspective of its
early readers, and he also elucidates key moments in recent
American cultural history.
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For this lecture, I was inspired by Dr. Bryan Richmond’s Southeastern Surgical Congress presidential address, “Finding your own unique place in the house of surgery.” I struggled to find my own place ...in cancer surgery. The choices available to me and those who came before me enabled the wonderful career I am blessed to enjoy. What I share as part of my own story. My words do not represent those of my institutions or any organizations of which I am privileged to belong.
What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe
Garibaldi? The revolutionary, soldier, politician, and greatest
figure in the fight for Italian unification, Garibaldi (1807-1882)
...brought off almost as many dramatic exploits in the Americas as he
did in Europe, becoming an international freedom fighter, earning
the title of the "hero of two worlds," and making himself perhaps
the most famous and beloved man of his century. Alfonso Scirocco's
Garibaldi is the most up-to-date, authoritative,
comprehensive, and convincing biography of Garibaldi yet written.
In vivid narrative style and unprecedented detail, and drawing on
many new sources that shed fresh light on important events,
Scirocco tells the full story of Garibaldi's fascinating public and
private life, separating its myth-like reality from the outright
myths that have surrounded Garibaldi since his own day. Scirocco
tells how Garibaldi devoted his energies to the liberation of
Italians and other oppressed peoples. Sentenced to death for his
role in an abortive Genoese insurrection in 1834, Garibaldi fled to
South America, where he joined two successive fights for
independence--Rio Grande do Sul's against Brazil and Uruguay's
against Argentina. He returned to Italy in 1848 to again fight for
Italian independence, leading seven more campaigns, including the
spectacular capture of Sicily. During the American Civil War,
Abraham Lincoln even offered to make him a general in the Union
army. Presenting Garibaldi as a complex and even contradictory
figure, Scirocco shows us the pacifist who spent much of his life
fighting; the nationalist who advocated European unification; the
republican who served a king; and the man who, although compared by
contemporaries to Aeneas and Odysseus, refused honors and wealth
and spent his last years as a farmer.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and ...impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph
Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully
alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his
innermost ...thoughts. Yet the circumstances around "The American
Scholar" oration--his first great public address and the most
celebrated talk in American academic history--suggest a different
Emerson. In Understanding Emerson , Kenneth Sacks draws on
a wealth of contemporary correspondence and diaries, much of it
previously unexamined, to reveal a young intellectual struggling to
define himself and his principles. Caught up in the fierce dispute
between his Transcendentalist colleagues and Harvard, the secular
bastion of Boston Unitarianism and the very institution he was
invited to honor with the annual Phi Beta Kappa address, Emerson
agonized over compromising his sense of self-reliance while
simultaneously desiring to meet the expectations of his friends.
Putting aside self-doubts and a resistance to controversy, in the
end he produced an oration of extraordinary power and authentic
vision that propelled him to greater awareness of social justice,
set the standard for the role of the intellectual in America, and
continues to point the way toward educational reform. In placing
this singular event within its social and philosophical context,
Sacks opens a window into America's nineteenth-century intellectual
landscape as well as documenting the evolution of Emerson's
idealism. Engagingly written, this book, which includes the
complete text of "The American Scholar," allows us to appreciate
fully Emerson's brilliant rebuke of the academy and his insistence
that the most important truths derive not from books and
observation but from intuition within each of us. Rising defiantly
before friend and foe, Emerson triumphed over his hesitations,
redirecting American thought and pedagogy and creating a personal
tale of quiet heroism.
In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a life crossing empires. As a youth, Husayn was ...brought from Circassia to Turkey, where he was sold as a slave. In Tunis, he ascended to the rank of general before French conquest forced his exile to the northern shores of the Mediterranean. His death was followed by wrangling over his estate that spanned a surprising array of actors: Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II and his viziers; the Tunisian, French, and Italian governments; and representatives of Muslim and Jewish diasporic communities. A Slave Between Empires investigates Husayn's transimperial life and the posthumous battle over his fortune to recover the transnational dimensions of North African history. M'hamed Oualdi places Husayn within the international context of the struggle between Ottoman and French forces for control of the Mediterranean amid social and intellectual ferment that crossed empires. Oualdi considers this part of the world not as a colonial borderland but as a central space where overlapping imperial ambitions transformed dynamic societies. He explores how the transition between Ottoman rule and European colonial domination was felt in the daily lives of North African Muslims, Christians, and Jews and how North Africans conceived of and acted upon this shift. Drawing on a wide range of Arabic, French, Italian, and English sources,A Slave Between Empires is a groundbreaking transimperial microhistory that demands a major analytical shift in the conceptualization of North African history.
In An American
Friendship , David Weinfeld presents the
biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual
precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots its origins
in the friendship between ...two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace
Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural
pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the
assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea-different ethnic
groups can and should coexist in the United States, perpetuating
their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole-and it
grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two
remarkable individuals.
Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social
Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black
Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as
the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor
of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and
Oxford during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during
the Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954.
To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural
pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while
appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how
this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for
diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship
provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over
identity politics that polarize US society today.
All Future Plunges to the Past explores how Russian
writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's
work. Through contextually rich close readings, José Vergara
uncovers the many ...roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last
century, demonstrating how the writers Yury Olesha, Vladimir
Nabokov, Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, and Mikhail Shishkin draw
from Joyce's texts, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans
Wake , to address the volatile questions of lineages in their
respective Soviet, émigré, and post-Soviet contexts. Interviews
with contemporary Russian writers, critics, and readers of Joyce
extend the conversation to the present day, showing how the debates
regarding the Irish writer's place in the Russian pantheon are no
less settled one hundred years after Ulysses .
The creative reworkings, or "translations," of Joycean themes,
ideas, characters, plots, and styles made by the five writers
Vergara examines speak to shifting cultural norms, understandings
of intertextuality, and the polarity between Russia and the West.
Vergara illuminates how Russian writers have used Joyce's ideas as
a critical lens to shape, prod, and constantly redefine their own
place in literary history.
All Future Plunges to the Past offers one overarching
approach to the general narrative of Joyce's reception in Russian
literature. While each of the writers examined responded to Joyce
in an individual manner, the sum of their methods reveals common
concerns. This subject raises the issue of cultural values and,
more importantly, how they changed throughout the twentieth century
in the Soviet Union, Russian emigration, and the post-Soviet
Russian environment.
