Renascent Joyce (Florida James Joyce)

Revival, reinvention, and regeneration: the concept of renascence pervades Joyce’s work through the inescapable presence of his literary forebears. By persistently reexamining tradition, reinterpreting his literary heritage in light of the present, and translating and re-translating from one system of signs to another, Joyce exhibits the spirit of the greatest of Renaissance writers and artists. In fact, his writing derives some of its most important characteristics from Renaissance authors, as this collection of essays shows. Though critical work has often focused on Joyce’s relationship to medieval thinkers like Thomas Aquinas and Dante, Renascent Joyce examines Joyce’s connection to the Renaissance in such figures as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Bruno. Joyce’s own writing can itself be viewed through the rubric of renascence with the tools of genetic criticism and the many insights afforded by the translation process. Several essays in this volume examine this broader idea, investigating the rebirth and reinterpretation of Joyce’s texts. Topics include literary historiography, Joyce’s early twentieth-century French cultural contexts, and the French translation of Ulysses. Attentive to the current state of Joyce studies, the writers of these extensively researched essays investigate the Renaissance spirit in Joyce to offer a volume at once historically informed and innovative. An Edited Volume Examining The Many Ways In Which Joyce Exhibits Renaissance Tendencies, Comparing Him With Major Renaissance Figures, Such As Shakespeare, Rabelais, And Bruno. Introduction / Daniel Ferrer, Sam Slote, And André Topia -- 1. Another Victory Like That And We Are Done For: Return And Repression Of A Greek Spirit In Modernism / Philippe Birgy -- 2. Textual Atomism In Finnegans Wake / Jonathan Pollock -- 3. James Joyce And Giordano Bruno: An Immarginable And Interdisciplinary Dialogue / Federico Sabatini -- 4. The Dream And The Wake: An Alchemy Of Words And Scenes In The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili And Finnegans Wake / Tracey Eve Winton -- 5. As Great Shapesphere Puns It: The Name Game In Shakespeare And Joyce / François Laroque -- 6. Marked You That?: Stephen Dedalus, Pierrot / Maria-daniella Dick -- 7. The Ass Dreams Of Shaun's Bottomless Heart: Shakespeare And The Dream-work In Finnegans Wake 403-407 / Jim Leblanc -- 8. The Imprevidibility Of The Future: On Joycean Prophecy / Paul K. Saint-amour -- 9. Scribbling Into Eternity: Paris, Proust, Proteus / Christine Froula -- 10. Joyce's Hand In The First French Translation Of Ulysses / Liliane Rodriguez -- 11. Joyce's Dictionnaire Des Idiotismes Reus: Comparing The 1929 And 2004 Translations Of Eumaeus / Robert Byr. Edited By Daniel Ferrer, Sam Slote, And André Topia ; Foreword By Sebastian D. G. Knowles. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Revival, reinvention, and regeneration: the concept of renascence pervades Joyce’s work through the inescapable presence of his literary forebears. By persistently reexamining tradition, reinterpreting his literary heritage in light of the present, and translating and re-translating from one system of signs to another, Joyce exhibits the spirit of the greatest of Renaissance writers and artists. In fact, his writing derives some of its most important characteristics from Renaissance authors, as this collection of essays shows. Though critical work has often focused on Joyce’s relationship to medieval thinkers like Thomas Aquinas and Dante, __Renascent Joyce__ examines Joyce’s connection to the Renaissance in such figures as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Bruno. Joyce’s own writing can itself be viewed through the rubric of renascence with the tools of genetic criticism and the many insights afforded by the translation process. Several essays in this volume examine this broader idea, investigating the rebirth and reinterpretation of Joyce’s texts. Topics include literary historiography, Joyce’s early twentieth-century French cultural contexts, and the French translation of __Ulysses__. Attentive to the current state of Joyce studies, the writers of these extensively researched essays investigate the Renaissance spirit in Joyce to offer a volume at once historically informed and innovative.