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UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE DIPARTIMENTO DI LETTERATURE COMPARATE JSI – Joyce Studies in lta1y Occasional Issues Founder: Giorgio Melchiori General editor: Franca Ruggieri Joyce Studies in lta1y is an occasional publication aimed at collecting materials, which throw light upon Joyce’s work and Joyce’s world. It is open to the contribu- tions of scholars from other academic institutions, both in Italy and abroad and its broad intertextual approach is aimed at developing a better understanding of the literary and human figure of Joyce, who, both as an individual and a writer, still rep- resents an all important crossroads in Western culture. The project was initiated in the early Eighties by a research team at the University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’, led by Giorgio Melchiori. In line with the editorial policy of JSI, no house style is imposed regarding the individual essays in the collection. Under the auspices of honorary members Umberto Eco and Giorgio Melchiori, the James Joyce Italian Foundation was founded in 2006 (website: http://host.uniroma3. it/associazioni jjif). The work of the Foundation, and the issues of the Piccola Biblioteca Joyciana series, are also intended to promote and further the work undertaken by Joyce Studies in Italy. 1 – JSI (1984) Joyce in Rome: the Genesis of Ulysses, ed. Giorgio Melchiori. 2 – JSI (1988) ed. Carla de Petris. 3 – JSI (1991) Names and Disguises, ed. Carla de Petris. 4 – JSI (1995) G. Melchiori, Joyce’s Feast of Languages, ed. Franca Ruggieri. 5 – JSI (1998) Fin de Siècle and Italy, ed. Franca Ruggieri. 6 – JSI (1999) Classic Joyce, ed. Franca Ruggieri. 7 – JSI (2002) The Benstock Library as a Mirror of Joyce, eds. Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli and Franca Ruggieri. 8 – JSI (2003) Romantic Joyce, ed. Franca Ruggieri. 9 – JSI (2006) Joyce’s Victorians, ed. Franca Ruggieri. 10 – JSI (2007) Joyce and/in translation, eds. Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli and Ira Torresi. 11 – JSI (2010) James Joyce, Metamorphosis and Re-Writing, ed. Franca Rug- gieri. This Publication is Peer-Reviewed Board of Advisors: Jacques Aubert (Univ.Lyons), Rosa Maria Bosinelli (Uni- versità Bologna), Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin), John McCourt (Roma Tre), Timothy Martin (Rutgers), Jacqueline Risset (Roma Tre), Franca Ruggieri (Roma Tre), Fritz Senn (Zurich), Enrico Terrinoni (Perugia Stranieri), Carla Vaglio Marengo (Torino), JOYCE STUDIES IN ItalY 12 POLYMORPHIC JOYCE Papers from The Third Joyce Graduate Conference: Dublin 22-23 January 2010 Edited by Franca Ruggieri and Anne Fogarty Edizioni Roma, 2012 Volume pubblicato con il contributo del Dipartimento di Letterature Comparate dell’Univeristà degli Studi Roma Tre TUTTI I DIRITTI RISERVATI È vietata la traduzione, la memorizzazione elettronica, la riproduzione totale o parziale, con qualsiasi mezzo, compresa la fotocopia, anche ad uso interno o didattico. L’ellecito sarà penalmente perseguibile a norma dell’art. 171 della legge n. 633 del 22/04/1941 ISSN 977-2281-373-005 © 2012, Edizioni Q – Roma www.edizioniq.it e-mail: [email protected] contents Sylvain Belluc Science, Etymology and Poetry in the “Proteus” episode of “Ulysses” ...... p. 9 Andrea Ciribuco “I’ve got the Stephen Dedalus Blues”: Joycean allusions, quotes and characters in Don DeLillo’s “Americana” .......................................» 25 Ann Fallon Stephen’s Ovidian Echoes in “Ulysses” ..................................................» 39 Chih-hsien Hsieh Hark the Written Words – The Gramophone Motif in “Proteus” ............» 51 Alison Lacivita Ecocriticism and “Finnegans Wake”.....................................................» 63 Yi-peng Lai “Bloom of Flowerville”: An Agri-national Consumer ............................» 71 Fabio Luppi Women and Race in the Last Two Chapters of “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” .............................................................» 83 John McCourt After Ellmann: the current state of Joyce biography ...............................» 97 Jonathan McCreedy An Argument for Characterology in the “Wake’s Old I.2”: HCE’s ‘Centrality’ and the “Everyman” Archetype. ...............................» 111 5 Niko Pomakis Lean Unlovely English Turned Backward: Reading “Scylla & Charybdis” Hermetically .................................................... p. 123 Franca Ruggieri James Joyce: Tradition, and Individual Talent ......................................» 137 Elizabeth Switaj Joyce, Berlitz, and the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language ..........» 151 William Viney Reading Flotsam and Jetsam: The Significance of Waste in ‘Proteus’ .......» 165 6 contributors Sylvain Belluc is currently doing a PhD at the university of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle. His thesis, which is supervised by Professor André Topia, deals with the role of etymology in James Joyce’s works. Parallel to his research, he teaches English at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Lille. Andrea Ciribuco has a Laurea Specialistica in Lingue e Letterature Moder- ne from the Università degli Studi di Perugia. He is currently a PhD candidate at the National University of Ireland, Galway (as a recipi- ent of the Hardiman Scholarship), where he is working in the Italian department on a project on the development of the Italian American literary language Ann Fallon studied English & Philosophy at UCD Dublin where she was awarded the Dr. H. H. Steward Scholarship in English by the National University of Ireland. She is currently working on a Ph.D. on Ovid’s influence in Ulysses with DCU, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. Chih-hsien Hsieh is a PhD student of University College Dublin. His re- search project is on sound and technology in Ulysses, in which he ex- plores how gramophone, telephone, radio, and film are presented and represented in Joyce’s writing. He is also a freelance translator since 1999. His Chinese translation of New Dubliners, an anthology of short stories published as the one-hundred-year-celebration of Joyce’s Dub- liners, was published in Taiwan in October 2011. Alison Lacivita completed her PhD thesis: ‘The war is in words and the wood is the world’: An Ecocritical Reading of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” in 2011 under the supervision of Sam Slote at Trinity College Dublin. Her work has appeared previously in Joyce Studies in Italy and she also has an article forthcoming in Green Letters. Yi-Peng Lai is a PhD candidate at the School of English at Queen’s Univer- sity, Belfast. She holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Literature from National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, as well as a MA in English 7 from the University of Virginia in the United States. Her research of interest includes James Joyce, Irish studies, modernism, Ecocriticism, cultural politics, Nationalism and transnationalism, and colonial/post- colonial discourses. She is currently working on a doctoral project on Ulysses and Ecocriticism, and is a contributor of a forthcoming collec- tion Eco-Joyce: Space, Place, and Environment in the Writings of James Joyce, to be published by Cork University Press. Fabio Luppi PHD in Comparative Literatures, Università Roma Tre. Pro- ficiency Certificate in English 1999. Taught English Language and Translation for the Faculty of Education Sciences at Università Roma Tre since 2009. Published a book on the theatre of W.B. Yeats, Ceri- monie e Artifici nel Teatro di W.B. Yeats. Editor with Giorgio Melchiori of the book by Agostino Lombardo, Cronache e critiche teatrali 1971- 1977. Published articles on J. Joyce, W.B. Yeats, J. Banville, J. Keats, W. Shakespeare, G. Manganelli. John McCourt is Associate Professor of English literature at Università Roma Tre. He is the author of The Years of Bloom: Joyce inTrieste 1904- 1920, James Joyce: A Passionate Exile. Most recently he edited James Joyce in Context and Roll Away the Reel World. James Joyce and Cinema. He is currently completing a book on Anthony Trollope and Ireland. Jonathan McCreedy is a PhD student at the University of Ulster, currently completing a thesis on James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. He researches the evolution of Joyce’s use of non-lexical shape designs, (or ‘sigla’), within the compositional process of Finnegans Wake, using an interpretive ge- netic methodology and a study of the James Joyce Archive. Niko Pomakis is a student of English Modernist Literature and Philosophy at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he has successfully completed an M.A.-thesis on Ulysses, alchemy and the Hermetic Tradition. Franca Ruggieri, is professor of English Literature at Università Roma Tre, coordinator of the PhD programme in Comparative Cultures and Lite- ratures, President of the James Joyce Italian Foundation and of CRI- SIS (Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale di Studi Irlandesi e Scoz- zesi), edi tor of “Joyce Studies in Italy” and Piccola Biblioteca Joyceana. Among her volumes on Joyce, Le maschere dell’artista, il giovane Joyce (1986), Introduzione a Joyce (1990), James Joyce, la vita, le lettere, 2012. 8 Elizabeth Switaj is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast and is the Assistant Managing Editor of Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing. She has work published or forthcoming in Hypermedia Joyce Studies and The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga. She is also a regular contributor to The Routledge Annotated Bibliography of En glish Studies. William Viney is a writer, broadcaster and editor. He has a Ph.D in Cul- tural Studies and Humanities from The London Consortium. In 2011 he helped to found Pod Academy – an online podcasting initiative. He