1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464413303321

Titolo

Bloomsday 100 [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Ulysses / / edited by Morris Beja and Anne Fogarty ; foreword by Sebastian D.G. Knowles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, 2009

ISBN

0-8130-3816-2

0-8130-4321-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

The Florida James Joyce series

Altri autori (Persone)

BejaMorris

FogartyAnne <1958->

Disciplina

823.912

Soggetti

Authors, English

Electronic books.

Dublin (Ireland) In literature Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from the Bloomsday 100 Symposium, held in the National College of Ireland, Dublin, June 12-19, 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Joyce's debris / David Spurr -- Mkgnao! Mrkgnao! Mrkgrnao!: the Pussens perplex / John Gordon -- Why Leopold Bloom menstruates / Austin Briggs -- Mixing memory and desire: narrative strategies and the past in Ulysses / Richard P. Lynch -- Inventing identity in Ulysses: Kitty O'Shea, memoir, and Molly Bloom / Tracey Teets Schwarze -- Barracks and brothels: militarism and prostitution in Ulysses / Greg Winston -- In the beginning was the gest: theater, cinema, and the language of gesture in Circe / Anthony Paraskeva -- Reading music, performing text: interpreting the song of the Sirens / Katherine O'Callaghan -- Joyce, Ulysses, melodrama / Timothy Martin -- Modernity and its discontents: fashion and my girl's a Yorkshire girl / Yu-chen Lin -- Schopenhauer's shadow, or Stephen as a philosophic Superman / Gerald Gillaspie -- Days of our lives: the one-day novel as homage à Joyce / Robert Weninger -- Past its sell-by date: when to stop reading Joyce criticism / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- Secrets, narratology, and implicature: a virgin reading of Calypso / Margot Norris.

Sommario/riassunto

June 16, 2004, was the one hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday, the



day that James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place. To celebrate the occasion, thousands took to the streets in Dublin, following in the footsteps of protagonist Leopold Bloom. The event also was marked by the Bloomsday 100 Symposium, where world-renowned scholars discussed Joyce's seminal work. This volume contains the best, most provocative readings of Ulysses presented at the conference.  The contributors to this volume urge a close engagement with the novel. They offer readings that focus variously on the materialist,

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972501103321

Autore

Rankine Patrice D

Titolo

Aristotle and black drama : a theater of civil disobedience / / Patrice D. Rankine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waco, Texas, : Baylor University Press, 2013

ISBN

9781481300032

1481300032

9781602584549

1602584540

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

812.009/896073

Soggetti

American drama - African American authors - History and criticism

African American aesthetics

American drama - Classical influences

Civil disobedience in literature

Classicism in literature

Comparative literature - Modern and classical

African American theater - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Civil disobedience as resistance to tradition and performance -- Classical origins of character and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a negro, Electra, and Orestes -- The Oedipus story and the perfect play, or The gospel according to Rita Dove: The darker face



of the earth and Sonata Mulattica: a life in five movements and a short play -- Racial intent and dramatic form: Eugene O'Neill's All Gods' chillun got wings and The Emperor Jones -- Aristotle's Spectacle and August Wilson's Spectacle character: Joe Turner's Come and gone -- Freedom songs and metaphors of healing: Eugene O'Neill's Mourning becomes Electra, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the sun, and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Topdog/Underdog -- Truth and reconciliation: civil disobedience and the cosmopolitan citizen: Charles Smith's The gospel according to James, Thomas Bradshaw's Mary, David Mamet's Race, and Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park.

Sommario/riassunto

Black theater, classical philosophy, and modern civil resistance