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Jocoserious Joyce: The Fate of Folly in Ulysses
Paperback
Series: Florida James Joyce
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ISBN13: 9780813013879
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Florida
Published: Nov 24 1995
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
From reviews of the first edition:
Magical. The satisfying mood that this book creates, and sustains with near-total consistency throughout, carries the narrative flow as jocoseriously as Bell credits Joyce with doing in Ulysses. This is original, incisive, and enlightening criticism, a fresh approach to Ulysses that analyzes the levels and depths of its humor in a language that is consciously witty.--Bernard Benstock
[Bell's] witty and lucid prose is a pleasure to read, . . . [written] persuasively and fluently.--Austin Briggs, Modern Language Quarterly
Finally, someone has sanctioned our fun. . . . This book is chockablock with information, references, discoveries, and insights.--Marilyn Reizbaum, James Joyce Literary Supplement
Students of Ulysses will find Robert H. Bell to be a deft dissector in demonstrating his case for Buck Mulligan as 'a brilliant clown in the Shakespearean tradition, ' in proving Bloom 'a holy fool, ' and in making Molly a sublimely ridiculous figure whose contradictions 'represent the ultimate ascent of folly.' . . . Professor Bell shows his good sense by quoting at one juncture from the late Jimmy Durante. This is an intricate but humane treatise on 'folly' in Ulysses which finds the three major personae 'richly consistent' and the sources of their selfhood 'surprisingly familiar and traditional.'--C. J. Fox, Times Literary Supplement
From the foreword to the paperback edition:
Part of the original design of Florida's James Joyce Series was to keep a few of the landmark Joyce studies in print and accessible to the growing audience for Joyce scholarship. Jocoserious Joyce is one of these: an informative and entertaining treatment of the dual nature of Joyce's comedy in Ulysses. . . . The embellishments of Bell's arguments, consisting often of a number of examples for a given point, regularly put new and delightful twists on passages that have never been examined under a comic lens. We are delighted to include in our list this lasting contribution to Joyce studies.--Zack Bowen, Series Editor
Robert H. Bell is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at Williams College. He has written widely for academic journals as well as for newspapers and popular magazines.
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