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Tag: James Joyce

131. (Ezra Pound)

Friday morning, stuck in Pound’s forty-seventh canto, a student (precocious, ambitious reader) broke me free from the jam(b) I was in: … More

Ezra Pound, Franco Morretti, James Joyce, Modernism, modernist poetry, Poetry, T.S. Eliot

115. (Italo Svevo)

Italo Svevo, whose talent was recognized and whose career was partially rescued by Joyce, is not much read nowadays. Joyce’s … More

Irony, Italo Svevo, James Joyce, Modernism, narration, narrative, Realism, the bourgeois, the novel

79. (James Joyce)

Once, in a graduate seminar on Chaucer, flailing and frustrated with the chatter, I blurted out to the professor, most … More

Chaucer, James Joyce, narration, Ulysses

78. (James Joyce)

Pastiche, farce, and imitation flood Ulysses at 4:30 p.m, around the time Blazes sleeps with Molly Bloom, and at the time … More

farce, imitation, James Joyce, narration, pastiche, the novel
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