The United States of America V. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce
Title | The United States of America V. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Moscato |
Publisher | |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Judge John Woolsey's decision in the Ulysses case marked a notable change in the policies of the courts and legislative bodies of the United States toward obscenity. Before this decision, it was universally agreed that a) laws prohibiting obscenity were not in conflict with the First Amendment of theU.S. Constitution and b) the U.S. Post Office and the U.S. Customs Service held the power to determine obscenity. Ulysses became the major turning point in reducing government prohibition of obscenity.
Ulysses
Title | Ulysses PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN |
James Joyce and Censorship
Title | James Joyce and Censorship PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Vanderham |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2016-07-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1349137782 |
James Joyce and Censorship is the first book to tell the fascinating story of the trials of Ulysses. Based on extensive archival research, it is also the first study of the trials to analyze their influence on the reception and composition of Ulysses in the context of Joyce's lifelong struggle with the censors, to evaluate their significance as an important turning point in the history of censorship, and to emphasize their relevance to contemporary debates regarding freedom of literary expression.
The Most Dangerous Book
Title | The Most Dangerous Book PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Birmingham |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2015-05-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0143127543 |
Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction “The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times James Joyce’s big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. The Most Dangerous Book tells the remarkable story surrounding Ulysses, from the first stirrings of Joyce’s inspiration in 1904 to the book’s landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933. Written for ardent Joyceans as well as novices who want to get to the heart of the greatest novel of the twentieth century, The Most Dangerous Book is a gripping examination of how the world came to say Yes to Ulysses.
Molly Bloom's Soliloquy
Title | Molly Bloom's Soliloquy PDF eBook |
Author | James Joyce |
Publisher | Naxos Audiobooks |
Pages | |
Release | 2014-05-10 |
Genre | FICTION |
ISBN | 9781843796251 |
Molly Bloom's famous soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses is a languorous internal monologue, in which the passionate wife of Leopold Bloom meditates on love and life. While Bloom sleeps beside her (head to toe), Molly recalls her many infidelities, including the energetic sexual encounter enjoyed that very afternoon. Though difficult to read straight from the page, Marcella Riordan's beautiful reading of this passage brings out all the wit and passion of one of the finest passages of writing in modern literature.
James Joyce and the Burden of Disease
Title | James Joyce and the Burden of Disease PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Ferris |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2014-07-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0813149827 |
James Joyce's near blindness, his peculiar gait, and his death from perforated ulcers are commonplace knowledge to most of his readers. But until now, most Joyce scholars have not recognized that these symptoms point to a diagnosis of syphilis. Kathleen Ferris traces Joyce's medical history as described in his correspondence, in the diaries of his brother Stanislaus, and in the memoirs of his acquaintances, to show that many of his symptoms match those of tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis which, untreated, eventually leads to paralysis. Combining literary analysis and medical detection, Ferris builds a convincing case that this dread disease is the subject of much of Joyce's autobiographical writing. Many of this characters, most notably Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, exhibit the same symptoms as their creator: stiffness of gait, digestive problems, hallucinations, and impaired vision. Ferris also demonstrates that the themes of sin, guilt, and retribution so prevalent in Joyce's works are almost certainly a consequence of his having contracted venereal disease as a young man while frequenting the brothels of Dublin and Paris. By tracing the images, puns, and metaphors in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and by demonstrating their relationship to Joyce's experiences, Ferris shows the extent to which, for Joyce, art did indeed mirror life.
Joyce and the Law
Title | Joyce and the Law PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan E. Goldman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780813054742 |
One may wonder that new ways of reading James Joyce continue to emerge, but as Jonathan Goldman and his fourteen contributors demonstrate, Joyce's key writings beg to be analyzed alongside Irish law and legal history. Together, these essays demonstrate how legal research elucidates the movements and motivations of Joyce's characters and the language and shape of his narratives.