Rabelais and His World.

In the context of scholarly re-evaluations of James Joyce’s relation to the literary revival in Ireland at the start of the twentieth century, this essay examines the significance of W.B. Yeats to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It traces some of the debates around Celtic and Irish identity within the literary revival as a context for understanding the pre-occupations evident in Joyce’s novel, noting the significance of Yeats’s mysticism to the protagonist of Stephen Hero, and its persistence in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man later. The essay considers the theme of flight in relation to the poetry volume that is addressed directly in the novel, Yeats’s 1899 collection, The Wind Among the Reeds. In the process, the influence of Yeats’s thought and style is observed both in Stephen Dedalus’s forms of expression and in the means through which Joyce conveys them. Particular attention is drawn to the notion of enchantment in the novel, and its relation to the literature of the Irish Revival. The later part of the essay turns to the 1899 performance of Yeats’s play, The Countess Cathleen, at the Antient Concert Rooms in Dublin, and Joyce’s memory of the performance as represented through Stephen towards the end of the novel. Here, attention is given to the mystical and esoteric aspects of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, aspects that the novel shares with the poetry and drama of Yeats.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1《The Unbearable Lightness of Being》简介 《The Unbearable Lightness of Being》是捷克作家米兰·昆德拉的作品，发表于1984年。其被我国读者所了解应在1987年韩少功和韩刚合译该书之后。自此，专家学者们对小说又有了一系列的重译和解读。本文讨论所使用的是Michael Henry Heim所翻译的英文电子版.

《The Unbearable Lightness of Being》的文体学解读

The biography of Samuel Beckett, the writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969, who died in December 1989. He is the author of \"Waiting for Godot\", \"Happy Days\", \"Molloy\", \"Krapp's Last Tape\" and \"The Unnamable\".

Samuel Beckett: A Biography

The Mysteries of Udolphoについて

Much scholarship on Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray has focused on its possible textual sources and its place in literary traditions. This article demonstrates that by contextualiz...

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On Being One's Own Heir: British Portraiture, Metaphysical Inheritance, and The Picture of Dorian Gray

Abstract:Writers have long employed scatology for shock value, satire, grotesque humor, and as a stimulus for philosophizing. In Molloy, Samuel Beckett employs scatology not only for satire but as a touchstone in examining the themes of language, creativity, religion, and existentialism. Beckett uses excrement as a metaphor to pursue his theories of language as excess. This leads naturally to the topic of creativity, which psychologists had associated with defecation in the infant mind, and to mythology, where we also find the association with creation. In looking at religion, the scatological can be elevated alchemically through psychology and mythology, or it can be used satirically to bring religion down—Molloy traverses both paths, scrutinizing Catholicism in particular. Finally, excrement functions in the novel as a leveler, both among humans and of humans, suggesting that much of the sentiment behind the shame, disgust, and evasion of excrement is rooted in existential anxiety.

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"'Tis my muse will have it so": Four Dimensions of Scatology in Molloy

This article considers Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1915 novel Herland in the larger utopian tradition and argues that it can be classified as a scientific utopia, in the tradition of Bacon's New Atlantis . Herland is frequently mischaracterized as "Arcadian" and "pastoral." In reality, the novel presents an advanced industrialized society that uses radical environmental engineering. The article challenges a number of critical readings from ecofeminism and feminist science studies in characterizing the novel, which has been abundantly studied in terms of gender politics but far less so in terms of the scientific utopia. Also covered are the novel's engagements with the population principle and eugenics—controversial issues in the novel's time and in our own but familiar territory in the utopian tradition. Though the Herlanders' mastery of their environment and population is impressive on one level, on another it is disconcerting, and the novel, from our point of view, can be said to have a place in another tradition—the technological dystopia. Last, brief consideration is given to the question of whether science can be a legitimate basis of utopia and what Herland contributes to this ongoing debate.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland and the Tradition of the Scientific Utopia

Abstract:Martha Clifford, Leopold Bloom's \"typist\" and erotic pen pal, is an unseen character in Ulysses whose existence nevertheless penetrates deeply into the mental fabric of the novel. She is a secret shared between Bloom and the reader, yet Joyce, Bloom, and Martha herself all effectively conspire both to hint at and conceal her identity. This essay discusses the identity of Martha Clifford and raises questions whose answers have both interpretive and biographical implications. After reviewing extant theories on Martha, I add a new suggestion: that she is a foreigner and non-native English speaker. My support comes primarily from a close reading of her letter and other textual evidence. I also draw connections to Giacomo Joyce and the mystery woman (or women) at its center. Extending the biographical criticism forward, I consider Joyce's attempted affair with Marthe Fleischmann as a case of life imitating art. Ultimately, Martha Clifford's foreignness contributes to Bloom's fantasies of the exotic, particularly through linguistic eroticism but also to the novel's larger examination of nationalism and identity.

Ulysses's Martha Clifford: The Foreigner Hypothesis

In his influential discussion of Joyce’s Ulysses, Eliot wrote that “no one else has built a novel upon such a foundation before: it has never before been necessary” (Ulysses 177). Without denying t...

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Andrew G. Christensen

Papers

On Being One's Own Heir: British Portraiture, Metaphysical Inheritance, and The Picture of Dorian Gray

"'Tis my muse will have it so": Four Dimensions of Scatology in Molloy

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland and the Tradition of the Scientific Utopia

Ulysses's Martha Clifford: The Foreigner Hypothesis

Myth and Mithraism in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge