If Joyce interests you, join the JJ Society here in NYC.
http://www.joycesociety.org/
The James Joyce Society
Current programs
History
Membership
Book Mart
Joyce links
So what does the world
really think of Joyce
-- (according to Googlism,
an independent source that
uses the Google engine)???
The James Joyce Society
Home Programs History Gotham Membership Gallery Archive Links Events Help April 1, 2010
Professor Strother Purdy of Marquette University (retired) on "The Measureless Time of Finnegans Wake - A Borgian Analysis" at The Roger Smith Hotel 501 Lexington Ave. at 47th Street New York City on Wednesday, 24 March 2010 at 6:00 PM
Joyce Events Calendar for 2010
(Trieste, Bloomsday, Prague, Dublin) W h a t ' s n e w ?
Strother Purdy on a Borgian Finnegans Wage 6 pm, Wed. March 24, Roger Smith Hotel, Lex & 47th
New JJS Meeting Venues The Gotham is closed
Early days of the Joyce Society Zack Bowen's memoir
Table of Contents
The James Joyce Society, founded in 1947, is devoted to the appreciation of the life, works, and significance of the Irish author (1882-1941). Meetings take place several times a year in New York City as announced. (Formerly, meetings took place at the Gotham Book Mart, a landmark bookstore and writers' center, which unfortunately is now closed.) [more]
Programs: The 2010 program schedule [more] Membership: Print out the application form to join or renew The James Joyce Society for 2010 ....[more]
Gallery: View original art, illustrations, and photography from The James Joyce Society collection ©....[more] Gotham Book Mart: Now closed, this world-renowned haven for New York writers, founded in 1920, is remembered in this 1948 photograph...[more]
Archive: Past events included Bloomsday celebrations and Fall and Spring programs...[more] Links: Follow links to the Finnegans Wake Society of New York and selected Joyce web pages for text, criticism, media, and discussion....[more]
Browsers: The joycesociety.org pages are formatted for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Opera and similar Windows and Macintosh browsers. For wireless/handheld/accessibility devices and printing, use plain text. For hints on optimizing viewing and printing, see Help.
Email: Send email info@joycesociety.org
President: A. Nicholas Fargnoli, afargnoli@molloy.edu
Webmaster: Heyward Ehrlich, info@heywardehrlich.com.
Site created 02/02/02. © 2002-2010 The James Joyce Society.
Home Programs History Gotham Book Mart Membership Gallery Archive Links Events Help
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
WOW!
ReplyDeletei read Wikipedia's entry for Joyce, and while it was interesting, it was still primarily just an entry: where he was born, what schools he went to, what he published and when etc.
However, when I went to googlism.com which, by the way, is the coolest site ever, I found some pretty amazing cross references for "Ulysses." I found that the list sounds and looks a lot more like "Ulysses" and Joyce's style itself than any other definition or entry I've read thus far.
Here are some lines that struck me for their sheer metaphoric and symbolic significance and stream of consciousness "connection":
1. "ulysses is a book of the ear."- It sure is!
2. "ulysses is frequently cited as the greatest novel of the 20th century and has been the subject of much scrutiny"- I might have disagreed with this during my first, initial reading but as time progressed, I began to understand it, much like one gets used to reading Shakespeare.
3. "ulysses is changing with time"- I can see why. I feel that literature- all books- change over time with its readers. Our interpretation depends on who we are, our environments, how we connect our lives to what we read.
4. "ulysses is from the world above"- or from the world below, depending on how you look at it.
5. "ulysses is a unique mission"- I definitely feel this way as I'm reading it. I feel accomplished when i've complete one chapter and move on the next.
I could not "googlism" James Joyce which is extremely weird. Maybe all that matters is that I could look up "Ulysses" which, in fact, may be more important than the man who wrote it himself. :)