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Moral Combat
... straddle two: the late Victorianism of which Henry James was the undisputed “fluent master,” and the heroic early modernism of Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Forster’s friend and rival Virginia Woolf...
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Mar 18, 2010 @ 6:00:00 am
..._and_entertainment/the_tls/article7065310.ece>, recalls meeting James Joyce in her memoir: “He put his limp, boneless hand in my tough little paw.” Now a collection of her charming and erudite letters is being...
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Shopping Modernism
...” as Kerri Walsh writes in her fine introduction to this collection. Beach most famously published James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922, when it was effectively banned in the United States and Britain...
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The Enigma of Sir Vidia
... last. French is very good on Naipaul’s writing; not so good as, say, Richard Ellmann on James Joyce’s, but then French has much more material to appraise. He handles the major works of fiction well...
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Uncreative Writing
... the early ’90s with Stein, Joyce, and Pound, followed by his discovery of the Language poets, that turned him from a career in visual art (he trained as a sculptor at risd) to a focus on innovative...
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PAST TENSE, PRESENT TENSE, TOO
... need to evoke--with deftness, complexity, tenderness, and ferocity--the world of her ancestors. “History,” observed James Joyce, “is the nightmare from which I try to awaken.” Erdrich knows this...
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LABOR POLICIES
... for, say, interpreters of James Joyce; yet the fantasy is resonant and, it seems, difficult to give up. The notion of the bricoleur exerted a certain charm among the strenuously professionalizing...
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It Takes a Village
... Edel writes in James Joyce, The Last Journey, “but fame, in the figure of the tall, slouching Irishman with his cane and his arrogance, thrust itself through her doorway.” Beach met Joyce in the...
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Train of Thought
... about in the book. The Joyce and the Proust essays are quite wonderful, but the relationship with Symbolism seems extremely tenuous. LD: Agreed. The other reason Axel’s Castle has dated is that it...
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REMAKE IT NEW
... James to James Joyce, from Arnold Schoenberg to John Cage. Gay goes for breadth rather than depth (and it must be admitted that the breadth of this book is pretty staggering). Assembled here is a...
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Novels in Three Lines
...”; “The Englishman James, a suburban celebrity (athletic feats, rowing), cut his throat at Courbevoie; he feared becoming insane.” For his microtales, Fénéon supplies— in an elliptical prose that...
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Best Adaptations
... Souvestre (which James Joyce called “Enfantomastic”) about a relentless underboss and his gang in an unprepared Parisian world, creates a pervasive sense of danger that outdoes The Sopranos for criminal...
