The Dark Dove by Webb Eugene;

Author:Webb, Eugene;
Language: eng
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2014-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

1. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (New York: Viking Press, 1964), p. 171. Subsequent references in parentheses.

2. For Joyce’s use of the term see Morris Beja, Epiphany in the Modern Novel (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1971), pp. 71-111.

3. Quoted in Frances M. Bolderef, Hermes to his Son Thoth: Being Joyce’s Use of Giordano Bruno in Finnegans Wake (Woodward, Pennsylvania: Classic Non-fiction Library, 1968), p. 39.

4. New York: Vintage Books, 1961, p. 28. Subsequent references in parentheses.

5. New York: Viking Press, 1958, p. 53.

6. Letter to Ibsen, March, 1901, Letters of James Joyce, ed. Stuart Gilbert (New York: Viking Press, 1957), p. 51. See also Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), pp. 89-91. The most extensive study of the influence of Ibsen on Joyce is Bjørn J. Tysdahl, Joyce and Ibsen: A Study in Literary Influence (Oslo: Norwegian Universities Press, 1968).

7. The Critical Writings, ed. Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann (London: Faber and Faber, 1959), p. 40.

8. Finnegans Wake, p. 540.

9. Ibid., p. 23.

10. Ibid., p. 246.

11. Richard Ellmann, Ulysses on the Liffey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972), pp. xv-xvi.

12. Letters of James Joyce, vol. 2, ed. Richard Ellmann (New York: Viking Press, 1966), pp. 168, 209.

13. Arthur D. Imerti, introduction to Bruno, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1964), pp. 35-36.

14. Ellmann, James Joyce, pp. 168, 178, 352-53.

15. Stanislaus Joyce, My Brother’s Keeper: James Joyce’s Early Years (New York, 1958), pp. 103-4, quoted in Beja, Epiphany, p. 71.

16. See Reeves, Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages, pp. 96, 523.

17. Robert M. Adams, Surface and Symbol: The Consistency of James Joyce’s Ulysses (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), p. 125.

18. Letter of ca. August 12, 1906, Letters 2:148.

19. See Reeves, Prophecy, p. 511.

20. Edom is a mistake on Bloom’s part, what Richard Ellmann calls a “Bloomism.” See Ellmann, Ulysses on the Liffey, p. 36.

21. “Equine,” which seems rather odd in this context, may be an allusion to Bruno’s discussion of metempsychosis, in which he speaks of “equine” and “porcine” modes of existence; see Imerti in Bruno, Expulsion, p. 35.

22. Ibid., pp. 35-36.

23. Quoted in Ellmann, James Joyce, p. 351.

24. The New Science of Giovanni Battista Vico (1744), trans. Thomas Goddard (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1948).

25. It is perhaps worth noting that Molly’s birthday, September 8 (p. 720), is also the day of the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

26. Ellmann, Ulysses on the Liffey, pp. 159-62, discusses various approaches to the ending of Ulysses.

27. It is perhaps worth mentioning that one of the mythic parallels I have not discussed in this chapter is that of Stephen to Christ. There are numerous links between Stephen and Christ, such as the Palm Sunday imagery in the Aeolus episode and references to the passion in the Circe episode. The reason I have not discussed them in connection with my theme is that whereas the parallels between Bloom and Christ have a positive significance, the parallels

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