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Joyce and Hagiography: Saints Above!
R. J. Schork"R. J. Schork examines the function of the countless saints--genuine and bogus, famous and obscure, ancient and modern--who hover over James Joyce's fiction.
Genitricksling Joyce
PreviewThis group is centered in Antwerp and Dublin and consists of Danis Rose, John O'Hanlon, Vincent Deane, Roland McHugh, and Geert Lernout and his students. The Americans R.J. Schork and Jorn Barger are also advocates. On the other ...
Sacred Song from the Byzantine Pulpit: Romanos the Melodist
R. J. SchorkTheir brilliant rhetoric and imagery are the avenue for deft commentary on scriptural texts and moral instructions. This book is an introduction to, and selected translations of, seventeen sung sermons of Romanos.
'Strandentwining Cable': Joyce, Flaubert, and Intertextuality
Scarlett BaronR. J. Schork provides an illuminating explanation for Flaubert's 'mistake'. It may not, as he explains, have been a mistake at all, but a private reference that most readers naturally miss: Flaubert was greatly influenced by the philosophical works ...
Writing Against the Family: Gender in Lawrence and Joyce
Cynthia Lewiecki-WilsonSee R.J. Schork, Review of Annotations to"Finnegans Wake." 32. "It is of note that one method of 'killing' the Father, as evidenced in the Captain and tailor and the Russian general stories (as well as in the park episode), is homosexual union ...
Latin and Roman Culture in Joyce
R. J. SchorkThis long-awaited book provides a comprehensive review of the role of Latin in Joyce's life and the pervasive contribution of Roman literature and culture to each of his works.
Greek and Hellenic Culture in Joyce
R. J. Schorkpicked up — perhaps from Stuart Gilbert — odd pieces of this terminology: " Oxatown and baroccients" (FW288.11). An "oxytone" (sharp pitch) has an acute accent (') on the final syllable; a "barytone" (heavy pitch) has no accent of any type on ...
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