scholarly journals Joyce...Bruno...Ulysses

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael I. García León
Keyword(s):  
James Joyce ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
General Consideration ◽  
Finnegans Wake ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
Giordano Bruno

Abstract:Giordano Bruno has been a philosopher traditionally connected to James Joyce. Nevertheless, Bruno’s influence has been associated to Joyce’s last and enigmatic work, Finnegans Wake. Apart from this general consideration, this paper tries to prove that Joyce’s youth readings on Giordano Bruno were a serious infuence on his most famous work Ulysses. Although it might be true that Joyce did not read Bruno as a primary source –he, indeed wrote a review on a book on the Italian thinker, we can conclude that Bruno was an important source on Joyce before he even conceived writing Finnegans Wake.Key words: James Joyce, Giordano Bruno, Literature and Philosophy, Ulysses, “all in all” theory.Resumen:Giordano Bruno ha sido un filósofo que se suele relacionar con la obra de James Joyce. Sin embargo, la influencia de Bruno se suele asociar con la última y enigmática obra del irlandés, Finnegans Wake. Amén de esta consideración general, este artículo intenta demostrar que las lecturas juveniles de Joyce fueron una influencia seria en su obra más conocida, Ulises. Si bien puede ser cierto que no leyó a Bruno en el original, publicó una reseña sobre el pensador italiano y podemos concluir que Bruno fue una fuente importante en Joyce antes de que ni siquiera concibiera la escritura de Finnegans Wake.Palabras clave: James Joyce, Giordano Bruno, Literatura y filosofía, Ulises, teoría de “todo está en todo”

Solving the Problem of Babel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Schotter
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
James Joyce ◽  
Illuminated Manuscripts ◽  
Finnegans Wake ◽  
Linguistic Differences ◽  
Universal Language ◽  
Basic English

By situating James Joyce within a larger discourse about the problem of Babel, this chapter show how hieroglyphs were used to make arguments for the origin of linguistic differences. The journal transition—in which Joyce’s work was serialized—served as a clearinghouse for ideas about how a new linguistic unity might be forged: either through Joyce’s Wake-ese or through the philosopher C. K. Ogden’s universal language of Basic English. Fascinated by these theories of universal language and drawn to the anti-imperialist politics underlying them, Joyce in Ulysses andFinnegans Wake turns to visual and gestural languages—film, hieroglyphs, advertisements, and illuminated manuscripts—in an effort to subvert theories of ‘Aryan’ language and imagine a more inclusive origin for the world’s cultures. The commonality of writing and new media become in Joyce a political gesture: a way of insisting on the unity of all races and languages in a mythic past against Nazi claims for racial purity.

Joyce's Indifferent Animals: Boredom and the Subversion of Fables in Finnegans Wake

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cliff Mak
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Authority ◽  
Finnegans Wake ◽  
Giordano Bruno ◽  
Beast Fable

This piece explores the multitude of animal figures in Joyce, especially with regards to his engagement with the classical moral mode of the beast fable. Drawing from a number of texts throughout Joyce's corpus – from his early essays on Dante and Defoe to the fables in Finnegans Wake – I show how a young Joyce's poetics of boredom (as derived from Giordano Bruno) informs his later work through the figure of the animal. Granting his animal figures a certain amount of agency, Joyce uses them to subvert the didacticism of fables, the colonial instrumentalization associated with this didacticism, and even the cultural authority of modernism itself, his own work included.

scholarly journals The Mental Construction of Reality in James Joyce

Oceánide ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
José Miguel Alonso-Giráldez
Keyword(s):  
James Joyce ◽  
Fundamental Characteristic ◽  
Finnegans Wake ◽  
Psychological Realism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
Cognitive Experience ◽  
Psychoanalytic Approach ◽  
The Individual

The purpose of this study is to analyse how James Joyce builds a large part of his narrative through a verbal tissue that is born from the cognitive experience, from the deep interaction between mind and environment. Beyond the psychoanalytic approach or Psychological realism, Joyce, particularly in Ulysses, displays this reading of reality in which a series of cognitive events form a narrative continuum. Reality appears before us through the perceptions of the protagonists, and that is the reason why we only access an incomplete view of reality itself. Partiality or incompleteness is a fundamental characteristic of Ulysses. However, Joyce aspires to build up a coherent and solid universe. Joyce creates a continuous reality through the semantic flow, often chaotic and blurry. Joycean language reveals the inconsistencies and instabilities of one's life, when it is impossible to transmit what cannot be apprehended completely, whether due to mental dysfunctions, hallucinations or other causes, as in Finnegans Wake. In this study, we also consider etymology as a tool that provides stability and linguistic richness to Joyce’s narrative, although subjecting it to hard transformations or mutation processes. Joyce finds great stylistic possibilities in the words used as semantic repositories that come from the past, and, with his passion for language, is able to build cognitive moments that rely on etymology. In the light of the most recent cognitive theories applied to Joyce's work, this study shows how the combination of mind, body and environment builds reality in Joyce, especially in Ulysses, overcoming traditional analyses around the inner monologue or the individual mind. Confirming previous studies, we consider that Joyce builds reality through microhistories, sketches, discursive or introspective cognitive events. However, to form a continuous substrate, that contributes to the construction of identity in Ulysses, Joyce deploys strategic frameworks, such as paternity or adultery.

scholarly journals Joyce para crianças brasileiras

2008 ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Dirce Waltrick do Amarante
Keyword(s):  
James Joyce ◽  
Finnegans Wake

A ficção do escritor irlandês James Joyce chega às crianças brasileiras por meio da tradução de seu único conto infantil, “O Gato e o Diabo”, feita por Antonio Houaiss, que assina a primeira versão brasileira de Ulisses (1922), e da ousada adaptação infantil de Finnegans Wake (1939), seu último e volumoso romance.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ciaran McMorran
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
James Joyce ◽  
Euclidean Geometry ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Finnegans Wake ◽  
Non Euclidean Geometry ◽  
Geometric Concepts ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Modes Of Thought

This chapter explores how James Joyce evokes an overarching concern with the linear in his works, both formally (in terms of the Euclidean ideal of rectilinearity) and conceptually (in terms of linear narratives, histories, arguments, modes of thought, etc.). In particular, it considers how the non-linearity of Joyce’s works reflects a wider questioning of the straight line in modernist literature which followed the development of non-Euclidean geometries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This chapter also provides an overview of the geometric babble which entered into the context of Joyce’s writing following the popularization of non-Euclidean geometry in modernist art and literature, as well as the “fashionable nonsense” associated with the application of geometric concepts in contemporary literary criticism. By referring to the source texts which informed Joyce’s articulation of multiple geometric registers, it traces his engagement with non-Euclidean geometry to his early readings of Giordano Bruno’s mathematical and philosophical works, illustrating how notions associated with the curvature of the straight line inform the structural composition of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

Beckett, Samuel Barclay (1906–89)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan (Amy) Tang
Keyword(s):  
James Joyce ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Dramatic Works ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
Waiting For Godot ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

Samuel Barclay Beckett is widely considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Born in Ireland and living in France for half of his life, he wrote prose, dramatic works, poems, and criticism in both English and French. He started to write fiction after he met James Joyce and other intellectuals in Paris in the 1920s. His research on languages, literature and philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris provided a solid basis for his works. His popularity grew rapidly after the Second World War, particularly after the publication of his groundbreaking play, En attendant Godot (1953, Waiting for Godot), and his trilogy, Molloy (1951), Malone meurt (1951, Malone Dies), and L’innommable (1953, The Unnamable). He was not only a prolific modernist who innovated avant-garde prose, theatre, radio, television, and cinema; he also joined the French Resistance during the Second World War and the post-war reconstruction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1095-1099
Author(s):  
Michael O’Sullivan ◽  
Oi Lin Irene Yip
Keyword(s):  
James Joyce ◽  
Finnegans Wake

Encountering the Authentic Marx

Worldview ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Michael Harrington
Keyword(s):  
James Joyce ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Karl Popper ◽  
Finnegans Wake

All I demand of the reader, James Joyce is supposed to have remarked of Finnegans Wake, is his lifetime. Fortunately and unfortunately, Karl Marx makes the same claim. Fortunately, because his work is so vast and rich that you can profitably spend a lifetime assimilating both its specific insights and a methodology that enables you to confront new and unprecedented realities. Unfortunately, because it is impossible to dabble in Marx. Such otherwise brilliant scholars as Karl Popper and Paul Samuelson have often written downright silly things about Marxism after acquiring a tourist's knowledge of it. There is probably a larger library of worthless writings on Marx than on any other major thinker in Western culture.

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