Joyce’s art is an art of idiosyncratic transformation, revision and recycling. More specifically, the
work of his art lies in the act of creative transformation: the art of the paste that echoes Ezra Pound’s urge to
make it new. The essays in this volume examine various modalities of the Joycean aesthetic metamorphosis: be it through the prism of Joyce engaging with other arts and artists, or through the prism of other arts and artists engaging with the Joycean aftermath. We have chosen the essays that best show the range of Joycean engagement with multiple artistic domains in a variety of media. Joyce’s art is multiform and protean: influenced by many, it influences many others.
Emma-Louise Silva, Ph.D. (2019), University of Antwerp, combines her role as a lecturer at that university with a postdoctoral position for the Time Machine Project. She has published in
JJLS,
JJQ, and she co-edited this volume for
EJS.
Sam Slote, Ph.D. (1997), is an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Joyce’s
Nietzschean Ethics (2013). His volume
Annotations to James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ will be published in 2020.
Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History at the University of Oxford, director of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp and co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org).
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Joyce and the Arts makes a positive contribution to describing, theorising and generally appreciating the multifarious ways that Joyce’s art engages with and is engaged by creative fields, addressing the important whys and hows of Joycean influence on the arts.”
- Clinton Cahill
Manchester Metropolitan University UK, in
James Joyce Broadsheet Vol. 119 2021 p. 2
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Endlessly Inartistic Portraits
Sam Slote
Part 1: Joycean “Re-tailorings”
1Sartor ResartusReanimatus: The “Reversionary” Art of James Joyce, the Re-tailor Tiana M. Fischer
Part 2: Visual Art
2 Portraits of the Artist David Spurr
3 “His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery”: Towards an Indirect Social Efficacy of Joyce’s Attitude to Mistakes – Through (Beuys’) Art Responding to Joyce Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
Part 3: Music
4 The Dysgenic Music of James Joyce: Joyce as Disablist Modernist Composer inFinnegans Wake John Morey
5 Sound Art? Trying to Make “soundsense” of the “sensesound” in Finnegans WakeThomas Gurke
6 The Art of Reading a Musical Novel: Literary Audiation and the Case of James Joyce Katherine O’Callaghan
7 Static Crooning Consciousness Expansion: Musical Undergrounds Respond to James Joyce Derek Pyle
Part 4: TV and Film
8 On the Stream of Consciousness and “Camera-Eye” in the Works of James Joyce and Thomas Wolfe Adam James Cuthbert
9 James Joyce and François Truffaut: Stylistic Correspondences Between Literature and Cinema Sara Spanghero
10 Nostalgia and the Kiss of Ulysses in Twin Peaks Damon Franke
Part 5: Hybridity of Visual and Textual Images 11 “Our eyes demand their turn”: The Materiality of the Joycean Image & Illustrations of Finnegans Wake Yaeli Greenblatt 12 The Logic of the Doodles in Finnegans WakeII.2 Sangam MacDuff
13 Columban Texts and Joyce’s “book of kills” (FW 482.33): The Limits of a Palaeographer’s View in Finnegans Wake Anne Marie D’Arcy
Part 6: Joyce “Receptionated” (FW 370.18)
14 “Patrick What-Do-You-Colm”: Reading Joyce with Padraic Colum John McCourt