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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/579/image/coversmallAbbreviations2025-07-09text/htmlen-USAbbreviations2025-07-092025TWOProject MUSE®43572026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-07-09'As I was going down Sackville Street': Joyce's O'Connell Street
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Recent debates have returned O'Connell Street to the centre of political discourse in Dublin. This broad thoroughfare should be one of the great European streets, Ireland's answer to the Champs-Élysées, yet it largely exists in a state of squalor and disrepair, a depressing symbol of civic neglect. In 2022, a programme made by Ireland's state broadcaster RTÉ showed the street in such a pitiful condition that questions were asked in Dáil Éireann about the thoroughfare's reputation for extensive drug abuse and antisocial behaviour. The paradoxical existence of O'Connell Street as equally symbolic of grandeur and decay underlines what is a distinctly Joycean condition: the architectural manifestation of Irish
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/579/image/coversmall'As I was going down Sackville Street': Joyce's O'Connell Street2025-07-09text/htmlen-US'As I was going down Sackville Street': Joyce's O'Connell Street2025-07-092025TWOProject MUSE®662442026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-07-09The 'Wilderness of Inhabitation': Notions of Oikos in Ulysses
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The following article finds its starting point in the ancient Greek word oikos. In classical Greece, the term was used to define the material household, the overall properties belonging to a person, and the family as genealogical descent.1 The stability and security of the oikos were so important as to be associated with a general state of well-being. For instance, classicist James Redfield claims that in the Odyssey 'the secure possession of an oikos is the working definition of happiness'.2 From the very first lines of the Homeric poem, Odysseus is identified in relation to his oikos, introduced as the man who is still 'longing for his wife and his homeland'.3 His ultimate goal is to 'recover and reconstruct his
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/579/image/coversmallThe 'Wilderness of Inhabitation': Notions of Oikos in Ulysses2025-07-09text/htmlen-USThe 'Wilderness of Inhabitation': Notions of Oikos in Ulysses2025-07-092025TWOProject MUSE®576762026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-07-09'Shunted, Changed': Urban Forms and Infrastructural Modernism in Ulysses
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Responding to the accelerating effects of an industrialized modernity, James Joyce compared the role of the modern artist to that of an engineer. In a comment to sculptor August Suter, recorded by his friend Frank Budgen, Joyce envisioned his writing process as a form of literary engineering: 'I feel like an engineer boring through a mountain from two sides. If my calculations are correct we shall meet in the middle.'1 Joyce's portrait of an artist as an engineer situates his cultural production within the realms of technological production and modern social organization, suggesting the relevance of technological systems and material spaces for his writing.2 Ulysses, after all, is Joyce's attempt to constitute a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/579/image/coversmall'Shunted, Changed': Urban Forms and Infrastructural Modernism in Ulysses2025-07-09text/htmlen-US'Shunted, Changed': Urban Forms and Infrastructural Modernism in Ulysses2025-07-092025TWOProject MUSE®850882026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-07-09A Ulysses Gathering: A Report on the Dublin James Joyce Summer School: 5–7 July 2022
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This centenary year, the Dublin James Joyce Summer School convened at its regular home in Newman house on 86 St Stephen's green (now part of the museum of Literature Ireland) and offered an exceptional and convivial three- day academic programme on Ulysses. The on-going concerns with COVID necessitated proceeding without the social programme this year, instead offering the academic programme to a small, more intimate gathering of almost two dozen scholars, both veteran and early career. Under the banner of 'a Ulysses gathering', the summer school offered intertextual, comparative, and developmental studies on various aspects of Joyce and Ulysses, ranging from the key nexus of Shakespeare and Company in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/579/image/coversmallA Ulysses Gathering: A Report on the Dublin James Joyce Summer School: 5–7 July 20222025-07-09text/htmlen-USA Ulysses Gathering: A Report on the Dublin James Joyce Summer School: 5–7 July 20222025-07-092025TWOProject MUSE®106292026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-07-09'Rus in Urbe': The Semi-Rural Liminal Zones in Ulysses
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In the 'Ithaca' episode of Ulysses, Leopold Bloom states that his 'ultimate ambition' (U 17.1497) is 'to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect' (U 17.1504–5) located 'not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line' (U 17.1514–16). From his clearly rural home Bloom would have views 'over unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures' (U 17.1510–11), even entertaining the idea of becoming a 'gentleman farmer' (U 17.1603). In imagining his 'bungalowshaped' house, Bloom dismisses other forms of residence, such as the excess of 'an extensive demesne' (U
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/579/image/coversmall'Rus in Urbe': The Semi-Rural Liminal Zones in Ulysses2025-07-09text/htmlen-US'Rus in Urbe': The Semi-Rural Liminal Zones in Ulysses2025-07-092025TWOProject MUSE®757172026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-07-09Notes on Contributors
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TIM CONLEY is Professor and Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University in Canada. He is the author and editor of several books on Joyce, the most recent of which is The Varieties of Joycean Experience.VINCENT DEANE was founder/editor of A 'Finnegans Wake' Circular. He has written articles on Joyce for the James Joyce Broadsheet, European Joyce Studies, the Joyce Studies Annual, and the James Joyce Literary Supplement. He has co-edited nine volumes in The 'Finnegans Wake' Notebooks at Buffalo series, published by Brepols. He has also written articles for James Joyce Online Notes (www.jjon.org) for which he is an editorial adviser.ADRIAN HOWLETT completed a PhD thesis exploring the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/579/image/coversmallNotes on Contributors2025-07-09text/htmlen-USNotes on Contributors2025-07-092025TWOProject MUSE®42362026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-07-09Zachary Leader's 'Richard Ellmann and the Making of James Joyce': The Little Museum: 3 March 2022
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There was an animated buzz in the air amongst Joyceans, scholars, and interested members of the public as they mingled before Zachary Leader's lecture at The Little Museum of Dublin on the evening of 3 March 2022. Perhaps it was the feeling of finally been unmasked and attending a live event within coughing-distance of the speaker and with no Zoom for mute/unmute frustrations. Or it may have being the anticipation of hearing one of the most eminent biographers of our time share from the work-in-progress of his biography of Richard Ellmann, the author of James Joyce, 'the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century', according to Anthony Burgess.1 In all events, the evening felt special, not least as it was
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/579/image/coversmallZachary Leader's 'Richard Ellmann and the Making of James Joyce': The Little Museum: 3 March 20222025-07-09text/htmlen-USZachary Leader's 'Richard Ellmann and the Making of James Joyce': The Little Museum: 3 March 20222025-07-092025TWOProject MUSE®130292026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-07-09Dagger Definitions
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In reflecting on definitions, there is an old joke worth considering: I used to be certain that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting other results — but every dictionary I checked said something different. Whether or not these strangely paired ideas of changeable meanings and the compulsion to reach for dictionaries point to insanity, they do reflect our sometimes-schizophrenic ways of reading Joyce. This joke also, I think, discloses a perverse truth: the act of defining is, willy-nilly, the expression sans pareil of subjectivity.The act of defining a word has an important and recurrent dramatic function in Joyce's works. I for one cannot think of a novel that compares
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/579/image/coversmallDagger Definitions2025-07-09text/htmlen-USDagger Definitions2025-07-092025TWOProject MUSE®350622026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-07-09Penelope, Molly Bloom, and the Work of Mourning
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The events of Ulysses occur immediately after the formal end of the Victorian era in 1901, a period often described as an Age of Mourning. James Stevens Curl writes of a 'celebration' of death in nineteenth-century society, a term that captures the energy Victorians devoted to memorial culture: elaborate funerals, the mortuary arts and crafts (including clothing, stationery, and jewellery, all available in specialized department stores), and mortuary photography.1 Perhaps the grandest legacy of this culture of mourning was the garden or rural cemetery, which began to appear on the outskirts of major cities like London and Dublin near the time of Victoria's accession to the throne. The death of the 'Widow at
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/579/image/coversmallPenelope, Molly Bloom, and the Work of Mourning2025-07-09text/htmlen-USPenelope, Molly Bloom, and the Work of Mourning2025-07-092025TWOProject MUSE®814602026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-07-09Sewing a Dream Together: 'Work In Progress' 1923–4
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In the Dublin of my day there was a kind of desperate freedom which comes from lack of responsibility, for the English were in governance then, so everyone said what he liked. Now I hear that since the Free State came in there is less freedom. The Church has made inroads everywhere, so that we are in fact becoming a bourgeois nation, with the Church providing our aristocracy … and I do not see much hope for us intellectually.1This article is intended in part as a supplement to Bill Cadbury's 'The March of a Maker', the minutely detailed account of the construction of I.2–4, in Kow Joyce Wrote 'Finnegans Wake', edited by Luca Crispi and Sam Slote.2 Working through the same material, but focusing on the earliest
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/579/image/coversmallSewing a Dream Together: 'Work In Progress' 1923–42025-07-09text/htmlen-USSewing a Dream Together: 'Work In Progress' 1923–42025-07-092025TWOProject MUSE®879112026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002025-07-09