Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2023.a905394
Wim van Mierlo
H Modernists is a fascinating collection of essays that looks at a range of modernist authors against the backdrop of their time. The book brings together thirteen essays originally presented at a conference held at the University of York in May 2018 in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the prestigious “Historicizing Modernism” series published by the Bloomsbury Academic Press. As such, the present volume fulfils the same aims as that series: to challenge traditional literary-critical work by drawing on documentary and archival sources with a view to providing fresh intellectual perspectives on the work and methods of modernist writers. The new essays in this volume offer in condensed, but no less rigorous, form what the book series to date has done so well: to genuinely break new ground. That the collection is missing an essay on James Joyce is due no doubt to the luck of the draw that comes with conference volumes like this. Nonetheless, readers of the JJQ will not be disappointed by the rich pickings on offer. Aside from two contributions on Virginia Woolf and two on Ezra Pound, there are essays on Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, David Jones, and Katherine Mansfield, on two queer late modernists, Charles Henri Ford and Richard Bruce Nugent, and on the critic Q. D. Leavis. What the volume amply demonstrates is how modernist authors are “historicized,” whether this is in literary-critical, biographical, or practical-editorial terms. Using untapped correspondence at the Beinecke Library, Svetlana Ehtee shows just how deeply embroiled Pound was with Nazi and Fascist figures, while Alec Marsh scrutinizes the letters Pound exchanged with the Fascist poet Olivia Rossetti Agresti (a relative of William and Dante Gabriel Rossetti) to discover that the “esoteric surface of The Cantos” actually hides a “hard, activist core” that cannot easily be explained away by Pound’s apologists (88). Jonas Kurlberg, too, uses a biographical approach in his analysis of Eliot’s involvement with a group called the Moot who were creating, in the 1930s and 1940s, the intellectual foundations for a Christian cultural revolution. His is an important contribution to the understanding of Eliot’s Anglo-Catholicism, which largely remains in need of specific historical contextualization. Natasha Periyan, by contrast, has written an excellent and subtly argued analysis of the “biopolitics” of intelligence and sentiment in Mrs Dalloway, by which she means the political discourses concerned with “optimizing the ‘aptitudes’ of the population” (53).1
{"title":"Historicizing Modernists: Approaches to \"Archivalism,\" ed. by Matthew Feldman, Anna Svendsen, and Erik Tonning (review)","authors":"Wim van Mierlo","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2023.a905394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2023.a905394","url":null,"abstract":"H Modernists is a fascinating collection of essays that looks at a range of modernist authors against the backdrop of their time. The book brings together thirteen essays originally presented at a conference held at the University of York in May 2018 in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the prestigious “Historicizing Modernism” series published by the Bloomsbury Academic Press. As such, the present volume fulfils the same aims as that series: to challenge traditional literary-critical work by drawing on documentary and archival sources with a view to providing fresh intellectual perspectives on the work and methods of modernist writers. The new essays in this volume offer in condensed, but no less rigorous, form what the book series to date has done so well: to genuinely break new ground. That the collection is missing an essay on James Joyce is due no doubt to the luck of the draw that comes with conference volumes like this. Nonetheless, readers of the JJQ will not be disappointed by the rich pickings on offer. Aside from two contributions on Virginia Woolf and two on Ezra Pound, there are essays on Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, David Jones, and Katherine Mansfield, on two queer late modernists, Charles Henri Ford and Richard Bruce Nugent, and on the critic Q. D. Leavis. What the volume amply demonstrates is how modernist authors are “historicized,” whether this is in literary-critical, biographical, or practical-editorial terms. Using untapped correspondence at the Beinecke Library, Svetlana Ehtee shows just how deeply embroiled Pound was with Nazi and Fascist figures, while Alec Marsh scrutinizes the letters Pound exchanged with the Fascist poet Olivia Rossetti Agresti (a relative of William and Dante Gabriel Rossetti) to discover that the “esoteric surface of The Cantos” actually hides a “hard, activist core” that cannot easily be explained away by Pound’s apologists (88). Jonas Kurlberg, too, uses a biographical approach in his analysis of Eliot’s involvement with a group called the Moot who were creating, in the 1930s and 1940s, the intellectual foundations for a Christian cultural revolution. His is an important contribution to the understanding of Eliot’s Anglo-Catholicism, which largely remains in need of specific historical contextualization. Natasha Periyan, by contrast, has written an excellent and subtly argued analysis of the “biopolitics” of intelligence and sentiment in Mrs Dalloway, by which she means the political discourses concerned with “optimizing the ‘aptitudes’ of the population” (53).1","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"60 1","pages":"409 - 411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44895401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2023.a905376
W. Brockman
We bid a congratulatory farewell to the James Joyce Broadsheet after its publication of 123 issues and welcome the revived James Joyce Literary Supplement. Thanks to our contributors: Sabrina Alonso, Armağan Ekici, Patrick O’Neill, Friedhelm Rathjen, Fritz Senn, Ira Torresi, Dirk Vanderbeke, and especially to Sam Slote for finding the Italian non-translation of Ulysses. The entire retrospective James Joyce Checklist, available online, compiles citations from earlier issues of JJQ and provides extensive coverage of editions, criticism and research dating back to Joyce’s lifetime. This resource is available at https:// norman.hrc.utexas.edu/jamesjoycechecklist/. Please send contributions or suggestions to your bibliographer at w.s.brockman@gmail. com.
我们向发行123期的《詹姆斯·乔伊斯大报》表示祝贺,欢迎《詹姆斯·乔伊斯文学副刊》的复刊。感谢我们的贡献者:Sabrina Alonso, Armağan Ekici, Patrick O 'Neill, Friedhelm Rathjen, Fritz Senn, Ira Torresi, Dirk Vanderbeke,特别是Sam Slote找到了《尤利西斯》的意大利语非翻译版本。完整的詹姆斯·乔伊斯回顾清单(James Joyce Checklist)可在线获取,收录了《JJQ》早期期刊的引文,并提供了可追溯到乔伊斯一生的版本、批评和研究的广泛报道。此资源可从https:// norman.hrc.utexas.edu/jamesjoycechecklist/获得。请将意见或建议发送给您的参考书目编纂者w.s.brockman@gmail。com。
{"title":"Current JJ Checklist (146)","authors":"W. Brockman","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2023.a905376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2023.a905376","url":null,"abstract":"We bid a congratulatory farewell to the James Joyce Broadsheet after its publication of 123 issues and welcome the revived James Joyce Literary Supplement. Thanks to our contributors: Sabrina Alonso, Armağan Ekici, Patrick O’Neill, Friedhelm Rathjen, Fritz Senn, Ira Torresi, Dirk Vanderbeke, and especially to Sam Slote for finding the Italian non-translation of Ulysses. The entire retrospective James Joyce Checklist, available online, compiles citations from earlier issues of JJQ and provides extensive coverage of editions, criticism and research dating back to Joyce’s lifetime. This resource is available at https:// norman.hrc.utexas.edu/jamesjoycechecklist/. Please send contributions or suggestions to your bibliographer at w.s.brockman@gmail. com.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"60 1","pages":"379 - 390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44947423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2023.a905392
Margot Norris
{"title":"Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce by David P. Rando (review)","authors":"Margot Norris","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2023.a905392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2023.a905392","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"60 1","pages":"399 - 402"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46148052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2023.a905384
Paul K. Saint-Amour
{"title":"We'll Always Have Parricide: Remembering Mark Wollaeger","authors":"Paul K. Saint-Amour","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2023.a905384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2023.a905384","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"60 1","pages":"241 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47352573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2023.a905386
R. Gerber
{"title":"A Profile and Remembrance of J. Howard Woolmer (1929-2022): Gentleman, Scholar, and Bookdealer Extraordinaire","authors":"R. Gerber","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2023.a905386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2023.a905386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"60 1","pages":"247 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48320175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2023.a905373
J. Hall
ABSTRACT:This essay considers possible sources for Stephen's list of coordinates in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, suggesting that an intertext with the work of English astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) provides not only a credible template but also a mode of imaginative "telescoping" that enables Stephen to develop imaginative "flight" as a complement to empirical, terrestrial observation and experience.
{"title":"Stephen's Telescopic Imagination: Geography, Astronomy, and Spatial Analytics in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man","authors":"J. Hall","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2023.a905373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2023.a905373","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay considers possible sources for Stephen's list of coordinates in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, suggesting that an intertext with the work of English astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) provides not only a credible template but also a mode of imaginative \"telescoping\" that enables Stephen to develop imaginative \"flight\" as a complement to empirical, terrestrial observation and experience.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"60 1","pages":"339 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66445761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2023.a905380
L. Gibbons
ABSTRACT:In Ulysses, the universalism of Homer's Odyssey is not conceived as an abstract model or formal allegory but is reworked in terms of Irish historical links with the Levant and North Africa, not just the European legacy of classical Greece. In a related manner, the universalism of human rights espoused by the Irish revolutionary Roger Casement to condemn atrocities in the Congo and Putumayo region of the Amazon was considered not in abstract terms but in relation to the ethical memory of Ireland's own "nightmare of history." For Hannah Arendt, such forms of "entailed inheritance" were the basis of human rights, but whereas she looked to rights to curtail oppressors in "civilized" societies, Casement extended rights to the oppressed themselves, decolonizing, like Joyce, the very language of civility.
{"title":"The \"Novelistic Wing of Human Rights\": James Joyce, Roger Casement, and Hannah Arendt","authors":"L. Gibbons","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2023.a905380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2023.a905380","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In Ulysses, the universalism of Homer's Odyssey is not conceived as an abstract model or formal allegory but is reworked in terms of Irish historical links with the Levant and North Africa, not just the European legacy of classical Greece. In a related manner, the universalism of human rights espoused by the Irish revolutionary Roger Casement to condemn atrocities in the Congo and Putumayo region of the Amazon was considered not in abstract terms but in relation to the ethical memory of Ireland's own \"nightmare of history.\" For Hannah Arendt, such forms of \"entailed inheritance\" were the basis of human rights, but whereas she looked to rights to curtail oppressors in \"civilized\" societies, Casement extended rights to the oppressed themselves, decolonizing, like Joyce, the very language of civility.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"60 1","pages":"319 - 338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46786090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J Cleary’s rich new reading of anglophone modernism offers a kind of expert guided tour of canonical texts of anglophone modernism: The Golden Bowl and The Waste Land (chapter 3), Ulysses (chapter 4), The Great Gatsby and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (chapter 5), and Omeros (chapter 6). The first two chapters chart the theoretical and historical itinerary subsequent chapters then explore with close attention to key passages in these texts. Making use of Pascale Casanova’s sense of the “world [literary] system” (with a few important qualifications and adjustments), the overall argument, mapped by the three keywords of the title, shows us the way “modernism” consolidated its claim to “world literature” through the shifting coordinates of “empire” as Europe’s cultural capital moved from London to New York.1 As Cleary explains in the first chapter: “‘Modernism’ is the name we now assign to that new aesthetic code through which the transformation in English letters that shifted Anglophone literary supremacy from London to New York was effected” (15). The book’s guided tour of anglophone modernism depends, however, on an important detour through Irish peripheries. And it is this double focus—on American and Irish challenges to the British—that makes for the book’s most interesting twists and turns. In certain ways, Cleary’s Irish emphasis repeats a key part of Casanova’s argument in The World Republic of Letters: that it is the Irish who set a precedent for those “subversive reworkings” that “enable writers on the periphery . . . to take part in international competition” (328). Yet Cleary underscores an ambivalence about this Irish precedence that is both compelling and, at the same time, riddling: compelling because anglophone modernism does lean so heavily on Irish writers (W. B. Yeats and James Joyce offering only the most noticeable profiles); riddling, because American and Irish challenges to British dominance are premised on very different equations of cultural capital to political power. As Cleary puts it, “whereas the Americans took over from the British in running a world empire, the Irish broke with an empire and had the audacity to establish their own state and to cultivate a literature of some distinction in its own right” (3). This double-vision of anglophone modernism in the service of empire-building and empire-dismantling emerges as much from the economic, intellectual, and political overview of the book (laid out mostly in the first two chapters) as it does from the fine-grained attention to individual literary works. What is important, if also riddling, is the fact that the Irish and
{"title":"Modernism, Empire, World Literature by Joe Cleary (review)","authors":"Christopher Gogwilt","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0035","url":null,"abstract":"J Cleary’s rich new reading of anglophone modernism offers a kind of expert guided tour of canonical texts of anglophone modernism: The Golden Bowl and The Waste Land (chapter 3), Ulysses (chapter 4), The Great Gatsby and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (chapter 5), and Omeros (chapter 6). The first two chapters chart the theoretical and historical itinerary subsequent chapters then explore with close attention to key passages in these texts. Making use of Pascale Casanova’s sense of the “world [literary] system” (with a few important qualifications and adjustments), the overall argument, mapped by the three keywords of the title, shows us the way “modernism” consolidated its claim to “world literature” through the shifting coordinates of “empire” as Europe’s cultural capital moved from London to New York.1 As Cleary explains in the first chapter: “‘Modernism’ is the name we now assign to that new aesthetic code through which the transformation in English letters that shifted Anglophone literary supremacy from London to New York was effected” (15). The book’s guided tour of anglophone modernism depends, however, on an important detour through Irish peripheries. And it is this double focus—on American and Irish challenges to the British—that makes for the book’s most interesting twists and turns. In certain ways, Cleary’s Irish emphasis repeats a key part of Casanova’s argument in The World Republic of Letters: that it is the Irish who set a precedent for those “subversive reworkings” that “enable writers on the periphery . . . to take part in international competition” (328). Yet Cleary underscores an ambivalence about this Irish precedence that is both compelling and, at the same time, riddling: compelling because anglophone modernism does lean so heavily on Irish writers (W. B. Yeats and James Joyce offering only the most noticeable profiles); riddling, because American and Irish challenges to British dominance are premised on very different equations of cultural capital to political power. As Cleary puts it, “whereas the Americans took over from the British in running a world empire, the Irish broke with an empire and had the audacity to establish their own state and to cultivate a literature of some distinction in its own right” (3). This double-vision of anglophone modernism in the service of empire-building and empire-dismantling emerges as much from the economic, intellectual, and political overview of the book (laid out mostly in the first two chapters) as it does from the fine-grained attention to individual literary works. What is important, if also riddling, is the fact that the Irish and","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"59 1","pages":"713 - 716"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42760002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We remember Tom Staley, who, as former Director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, provided the impetus for digitizing and hosting the “Checklist.” Our thanks to contributors to this number of the “Current Checklist”: Mary Adams, Sabrina Alonso, Valérie Bénéjam, Sheelagh Bevan, Kazuhiro Doki, Richard Gerber, Vincent Golden, Onno Kosters, Patrick O’Neill, and Fritz Senn. The entire retrospective James Joyce Checklist compiles citations from earlier issues of the JJQ and other resources, providing extensive coverage of editions, criticism and research dating back to Joyce’s lifetime. This resource is available at . Please send contributions or suggestions to your bibliographer at w.s.brockman@gmail.com.
{"title":"Current JJ Checklist (144)","authors":"W. Brockman","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0029","url":null,"abstract":"We remember Tom Staley, who, as former Director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, provided the impetus for digitizing and hosting the “Checklist.” Our thanks to contributors to this number of the “Current Checklist”: Mary Adams, Sabrina Alonso, Valérie Bénéjam, Sheelagh Bevan, Kazuhiro Doki, Richard Gerber, Vincent Golden, Onno Kosters, Patrick O’Neill, and Fritz Senn. The entire retrospective James Joyce Checklist compiles citations from earlier issues of the JJQ and other resources, providing extensive coverage of editions, criticism and research dating back to Joyce’s lifetime. This resource is available at <https://norman.hrc. utexas.edu/jamesjoycechecklist/>. Please send contributions or suggestions to your bibliographer at w.s.brockman@gmail.com.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"59 1","pages":"677 - 690"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44948951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
“world literature” emerges. It is not entirely clear how this profile of the critic within the canonical text relates to those “critics of the center” against whom Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters seeks to liberate the “deprived and dominated writers on the periphery of the literary world” (355). In the double vision of Cleary’s American and Irish appropriations of modernism, the critic is simultaneously a critic of the center and a critic from the periphery. Modernism, Empire, World Literature tends toward the conservative side of its ambivalent grasp of anglophone modernism. From this perspective, the great modernist revolutions in form live on only through their appropriation by empire and as monuments to empire’s claim to civilization. From another perspective, though, those monuments themselves bear the linguistic, literary, and cultural traces of a revolutionary destabilization of empire. Cleary leaves us still wanting to find the right balance between the idealistic championing of modernism’s revolutionary peripheries and the melancholic regret for modernism’s role in monumentalizing empire in art.
“世界文学”应运而生。目前还不完全清楚,在规范文本中,评论家的这种形象与卡萨诺瓦的《世界文学共和国》(the World Republic of Letters)试图解放“文学世界边缘被剥夺和支配的作家”(355)的那些“中心评论家”有何联系。在克利里对美国和爱尔兰现代主义的双重阐释中,批评家既是中心的批评家,又是边缘的批评家。现代主义、帝国主义、世界文学在其对英语现代主义的矛盾把握中倾向于保守的一面。从这个角度来看,伟大的现代主义革命只有在被帝国侵占的情况下才能继续存在,并成为帝国对文明主张的纪念碑。然而,从另一个角度来看,这些纪念碑本身带有帝国革命不稳定的语言、文学和文化痕迹。克利里让我们仍然想在对现代主义革命边缘的理想主义支持和对现代主义在纪念艺术帝国中所起作用的忧郁遗憾之间找到正确的平衡。
{"title":"Irish Literature in Transition, 1880-1940 ed. by Marjorie Elizabeth Howes (review)","authors":"Erika Mihálycsa","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0036","url":null,"abstract":"“world literature” emerges. It is not entirely clear how this profile of the critic within the canonical text relates to those “critics of the center” against whom Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters seeks to liberate the “deprived and dominated writers on the periphery of the literary world” (355). In the double vision of Cleary’s American and Irish appropriations of modernism, the critic is simultaneously a critic of the center and a critic from the periphery. Modernism, Empire, World Literature tends toward the conservative side of its ambivalent grasp of anglophone modernism. From this perspective, the great modernist revolutions in form live on only through their appropriation by empire and as monuments to empire’s claim to civilization. From another perspective, though, those monuments themselves bear the linguistic, literary, and cultural traces of a revolutionary destabilization of empire. Cleary leaves us still wanting to find the right balance between the idealistic championing of modernism’s revolutionary peripheries and the melancholic regret for modernism’s role in monumentalizing empire in art.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"59 1","pages":"716 - 721"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47602621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}