Joyce’s Non-Fiction Writings Katherine Ebury • James Alexander Fraser Editors Joyce’s Non-Fiction Writings “Outside His Jurisfiction” Editors Katherine Ebury James Alexander Fraser University of Sheffield University of Exeter Sheffield, UK Exeter, UK ISBN 978-3-319-72241-2 ISBN 978-3-319-72242-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72242-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018941464 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland SELECTED CATALOGUE OF JOYCE’s WORKs Title Likely composition date Date of first publication Letters Major compilations 1957, 1966, 1975, 1987 “Trust Not Appearances” c. 1896 1959 “Force”/“Subjugation” 1898 1959 “The Study of Languages” 1898/9 1959 “Royal Hibernian Academy 1899 1959 ‘Ecce Homo’” “Drama and Life” 1900 Delivered 1900; published 1959 “Ibsen’s New Drama” 1900 1900 “Epiphanies notebook” 1898– 1956 “The Day of the Rabblement” 1901 1901 (privately printed in Dublin) “James Clarence Mangan” 1902 1902 (St Stephen’s) Book Reviews for the Daily 1902–1903 1902–1903, reprinted Express, the Irish Times and the 1959 Speaker Stephen Hero Begun before August 1944 1903—abandoned 1907 “A Portrait of the Artist” 1904 1960 (Yale Review) reprinted 1965 Chamber Music 1904 1907 “The Holy Office” 1904 1905 (privately printed in Pola) (continued) v vi SELECTED CATALOGUE OF JOYCE’S WORKS (continued) Title Likely composition date Date of first publication Dubliners 1904–1907 1904 (3 stories in Irish Homestead “The Sisters,” “Eveline,” “After the Race”); full collection 1914 “Ireland, Island of Saints and 1907 Delivered April 1907; Sages” translation published 1959 “Fenianism: The Last Fenian”; 1907 1907 (Il Piccolo della serra) “Home Rule Comes of Age”; translation published 1956 “Ireland at the Bar” and 1959 A Portrait of the Artist as a 1907 Serialised 1914; published Young Man 1916 “Oscar Wilde: The Poet of 1909 1909 (Piccolo); translation Salomé” published 1956 and 1959 “The Battle between Bernard 1909 1909 (Piccolo); translation Shaw and the Censor” published 1956 and 1959 “The Home Rule Comet” 1910 1910 (Piccolo) published 1956 and 1959 “A Curious History” 1911 1911 (Sinn Féin) “Realism and Idealism in 1912 Delivered 1912; published English Literature” 1959 “The Centenary of Charles 1912 Written for Italian state Dickens”; “The Universal exams; published 1977 Literary Significance of the Renaissance” “The Shade of Parnell”; “The 1912 1912 (Piccolo); published City of the Tribes”; “The 1956 and 1959 Mirage of the Fishermen of Aran” “Politics and Cattle Disease” 1912 1912 (Freeman’s Journal) (authorship contested—see Barry chapter) “Gas from a Burner” 1912 1912 (privately printed in Trieste) Giacomo Joyce 1914 1968 Exiles 1914–1915 1918 Ulysses 1914–1922 Serialised in the Little Review (1918–1920); The Egoist (1919); 1922 (Shakespeare and Company) “A Note-book of Dreams” 1916 1977–1979 (James Joyce Archive) (continued) SELECTED CATALOGUE OF JOYCE’S WORKS vii (continued) Title Likely composition date Date of first publication Work in Progress (Finnegans 1923 Serialised 1924 Wake) Transatlantic Review; 1927 Transition; sections published 1928, 1929, 1930, 1934, 1937; full publication 1939 Pomes Penyeach Joyce gives wide range of 1927 composition dates and places, including Dublin 1904, Trieste 1912–1915, Zurich 1916–1918, Paris 1924 Various authors: Our 1929 1929 Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress* Stuart Gilbert: James Joyce’s 1930 1930 Ulyssesa Frank Budgen: James Joyce and 1934 1934 the Making of Ulysses* “Ecce Puer” 1932 1933 (the Criterion) “From a Banned Writer to a 1932 1932 Banned Singer” *We include here for reference those non-fictional works about Joyce’s oeuvre in the composition of which Joyce is known to have been involved in some way ACKNOwLEDGEMENTs This project has been a long-term ambition for us, and thus has needed the help and encouragement of many people, more than we can easily thank here. Still, we are grateful to the University of York for hosting and supporting the original 2012 conference, as well as the MHRA Conference Fund for the award of £1000. Thanks also to those friends who helped out at this event, such as Sarah Pett and Isabelle Hesse. It is also important to thank Professor Derek Attridge, who supervised both of us during our PhDs, for his continuing advice and support. Special thanks go to the contributors to the volume, for entrusting their excellent work to our hands, and to our editors at Palgrave. Thanks also to our many friends in the Joyce community whose ear we have bent about this project as it developed, many but by no means all of whom were at the original conference: Vike Plock, Valérie Benejam, Anne Fogarty, Luca Crispi, Sam Slote, Thomas Gurke, Jūraté Levina, Matt Hayward, Arthur Rose, Michelle Witen, Paul Fagan, Ruben Borg, Tamara Radak, Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston, and Daniel Curran. On a more personal note, Katherine wishes to acknowledge the impor- tance of her friendship and collaboration with James, which has admirably withstood the many hazards of edited collection partnership, and to thank him for his unfailing editorial judgement and his calm in a crisis. She is also happy to have been able to work with J. T. Welsch on this project, loving both his work and himself, and thankful for Sasha’s doggy loyalty through- out. She is also grateful for a research community at Sheffield that has helped her mature as a critic (at least to the extent that she has), and the moral support of Amber Regis and Fabienne Collignon in particular. ix x ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS James would like to marvel yet further on the survival, nay strengthen- ing, of his friendship with Katherine throughout this editorial process. She brings the same characteristics to her editing as she does to her friendships: diligence, consideration, and intelligence. He would also like to thank her for indulging his crankish insistence on the value of the serial comma, the difference between the words “crucial” and “important,” and the editorial advantages of Courier New. He thanks Anna and Aengus for still being there when he gets home and for being a home worth travelling 500 miles for. He also acknowledges his sister Fiona, because she complained that he didn’t last time. CONTENTs 1 Introduction 1 Katherine Ebury and James Alexander Fraser Part I New Perspectives on Authorship 29 2 “Please, Mr. Postman”: Joyce’s Expanding Epistolary Novel 31 Michael Groden 3 “He chronicled with patience”: Early Joycean Progressions Between Non-Fiction and Fiction 55 Hans Walter Gabler 4 Tracing the Curve of an Emotion: Joyce’s Early “Portrait” Essay 77 Terence Killeen 5 Is It Joyce We Are Reading? Non-Fiction, Authorship, and Digital Humanities 93 Kevin Barry, Kevin Chekov Feeney, Gavin Mendel-­Gleason, and Bojan Božić xi xii Contents Part II A Talent for Journalism 109 6 James Joyce as Cultural Critic 111 Emer Nolan 7 Into the West: Joyce on Aran 127 John McCourt 8 Writing Journalism, Writing Betrayal: The Formation of a Journalistic Voice 145 James Alexander Fraser Part III Performance, Voice, Becoming 173 9 Becoming-Animal in the Epiphanies: Joyce Between Fiction and Non-Fiction 175 Katherine Ebury 10 “… For frankness’ sake”: Confessional Structures in Giacomo Joyce 195 J. T. Welsch Bibliography 213 Index 223 NOTEs ON CONTRIBUTORs Kevin Barry is editor of James Joyce: Occasional, Critical, and Political Writings (OUP, 2000; 2008) and Professor Emeritus of English Literature in the School of Humanities, NUI Galway. He is a founder member of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and has published widely on eighteenth-century European literature and modern Irish writing. Recent publications include Traces of Peter Rice (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2012; Japanese translation 2013; Korean 2015) and “The throats of birds: W.B. Yeats and the act of dying,” Critical Quarterly, 57, 2, 2015. Bojan Božić is a researcher in computer science at Trinity College Dublin and has worked on semantic web technologies for six years. He was a soft- ware engineer in speech recognition at Philips Speech Recognition Systems, was a scientist at the Austrian Institute of Technology, and a Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland and University of Vienna. At AIT’s Safety and Security department, he worked in leading roles in European research projects such as SANY (Sensor Web Enablement), TaToo (Tagging Tools for Semantic Discovery), Europeana Creative (Cultural Inheritage), PELAGIOS (Linked Data), and C2-SENSE (Sensor Web and Interoperability).