The current paper is sort of interiorized or aesthetic self-examination on the significance of reading Joyce with his native cultural and literary backgrounds and perhaps implicitly in its neighboring East Asian countries like China and Japan It is basically planned and pursued according to the expectations of comparative literature More specifically, the writer examine..
Since James Joyce was introduced in Japan, several novels have been written either directly or indirectly under his influence But in this paper I limit my argument to some phases First I deal with the early reactions of our writers to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses and secondly the influence of Finnegans Wake reflected on one of the contemporary Japanes..
The study of James Joyce in China might be divided into three stages The first stage starts from the year when Ulysses was published in 1922, while some modern Chinese writers noticed it and introduced it briefly here and there in Chinese periodicals, to the year 1977 when China was ready to be open again to the Western cultures The second stage is from 1978 to 1993 when the..
James Joyce studies in Taiwan is always already tinted with global and diasporic colors because of the tutelage of the exiled scholar, Chi-an Hsia, and the Jesuit missionary, Father Demers, at its embryonic stage half a century ago Over the years, it has gone through dramatic changes in terms of the number of papers published and the range of subjects studied This paper exa..
This article aims to introduce the general attitude regarding Japanworld affairs in Joyce`s time, and to argue on Joyce`s reception of Japan in his works and the Japanese reception of Joyce from a postcolonial perspective In a letter to his brother Stanislaus on November 6, 1906 James Joyce showed his interest in Japan`s military power at that time Japan, the first naval ..
This paper will mostly present, not necessarily a research to raise a wind, but a brief historical survey of Joyce scholarship in Korea and its current status, including this writer`s own humble dedication to this fascinating journey At present, Joyce`s complete works such as Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Exiles, Stephen Hero, even Finnegan..
The Sisters has long been conceived of as an introductory story to Dubliners, which carries the paralysis leitmotif to incorporate the entire fifteen stories of the book Joycean critics tend to readily connect Father Flynn`s paralysis as a polymorphous concept to Joycean notion of the moral history by associations of a sexual disease and consequent readings of The Sisters..
This paper examines how individual memories as mirror image of national history are detrimental to reaching an epiphany or a keen sense of political and historical consciousness In Eveline, nostalgic memory ends up disguising the past and paralyzing Eveline`s agency and ability to change her oppressive present As long as nostalgic memory of the past repeatedly numbs her pa..
Mr Duffy, a highly sophisticated Dublin intellectual, develops a love affair with Mrs Sinico who turns out to be a lady of great sensibility and maternal warmth Their turbulent affair, however, comes to an end when he denies her abrupt advance toward him Four years later, Mrs Sinico is reported killed in a train accident The newspaper headlines it A Painful Case Yes, it is ..