James Joyce Remembered Edition 2022

Helen Solterer

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English

University of Dublin
18 August 2022

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

In time for the 100th anniversary of Ulysses comes a new edition of a classic remembrance of its author, penned by one of his lifelong friends and supporters.

C.P. Curran first met James Joyce in a University College Dublin lecture hall in 1899, and the two quickly struck up an intense lifelong friendship. Curran was a model for the character Gabriel in Joyce’s “The Dead” and was also one of the first people to reject a piece of Joyce’s writing—the 1904 poem “The Holy Office,” which Curran, as editor of St. Stephen’s, lightheartedly deemed “an unholy thing.” Curran even is mentioned by name in Ulysses, where Stephen Dedalus recalls that he owes him ten guineas. In 1968, Curran summed up his views of the seminal Modernist author in James Joyce Remembered. This year—the centennial anniversary of Ulysses’ publication—University College Dublin Press is pleased to bring forth a new edition of this classic remembrance, edited by Curran’s granddaughter and featuring sparkling new essays from a host of Joyce scholars, literary critics, architects, and historians.

This group of University College Dubliners takes a new look at Curran’s work, delving into the Curran-Laird collection at the James Joyce Library to offer a singular portrait of the author and his inventive cohort of friends. The world of Joyce and Curran opens up, revealing little-known writing and episodes in political activism, during the Irish wars that flared up again in 1922 as Ulysses first began circulating, and the struggles against fascism that came to engulf Joyce’s Paris. This highly illustrated tribute to a literary figurehead is perfect reading for Joyce neophytes, Bloomsday aficionados, and anyone interested in examining this watershed period of Irish history through an international lens.

Edited by: Helen Solterer
Imprint: University of Dublin
Country of Publication: Ireland
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 185mm,
ISBN: 9781910820803
ISBN 10: 1910820806
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 18 August 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Helen Solterer is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Her writing and teaching cross her first focus on early modern literature and culture and her work in twentieth-century cultural history. Timely Fictions in French, her latest book supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, is nearing completion. Other books include: the co-edited Migrants Shaping Europe: Multi-lingual Literatures, Social Cultures, Visual Arts, Medieval Roles for Modern Times, Theater and the Battle for the French Republic, translated into French, and The Master and Minerva, in a feminist vein. Contributors: Hugh Campbell, (School of Architecture) Diarmaid Ferriter, (School of History), Anne Fogarty and Margaret Kelleher (School of English), University College Dublin.

Reviews for James Joyce Remembered Edition 2022

'His defiance of a media ban by the then invading Russians earned the attentions of a famous general, who considered shooting him but instead became a close friend.' - Terence Killeen, The Irish Times, June 2022.; 'The collaborative book reveals some new details of their lives in Dublin at a crucial time in Ireland's fight for independence from Great Britain, and the Civil War that erupted in the year Joyce published Ulysses.' - Duke University, June 2022.; 'Curran's book is not only an empathetic & nuanced account of Joyce but also, in effect, of a whole galaxy of UCD graduates who contributed to the Irish Revival & to the formation of the state' - UCD Today, Spring/Summer 2022.;