| HJS |
| volume 4, issue 1, 2003 |
| NOTES 1 William T. Noon, S.J., explains Stephen's use of Aquinas in Joyce and Aquinas (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957) 105ff. 2 John McCourt surveys a number of candidates for the title of the mystery woman in Giacomo Joyce and concludes that Popper remains the likeliest. See The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) 199-203. 3 Vicki Mahaffey discusses Joyce's use of The Cenci, seeing Orsino, the prelate who lusts after Beatrice, as parallel to Joyce. See "Giacomo Joyce," A Companion to Joyce Studies, eds. Zack Bowen and James F. Carens (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984) 410-11. The political implications of Joyce's use of The Cenci are developed by Joseph Valente in James Joyce and the Problem of Justice: Negotiating Sexual and Colonial Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 111-114. 4 McCourt explains that it was another woman whom Joyce might have used as his model, Emma Cuzzi, rather than Popper who had this operation, The Years of Bloom (200-201). 5 McCourt, The Years of Bloom, 204. 6 Slavoj Zizek, Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality (London: Verso, 1994) 30. 7 Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. Augustine, trans. John K. Ryan (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Image, 1960) Book 10, chapter 8. 8 Derek Attridge, Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) 73. 9 Attridge, Joyce Effects, 60. 10 Mahaffey points out a number of images linking Amalia to the Virgin ("Giacomo Joyce," 399). Mahaffey's fine interpretation of Giacomo Joyce is very different from mine: she refers to Giacomo and Amalia as Joyce and the lady, and she emphasises his disillusionment and sense of betrayal. Rather than saying that one of us is right and the other wrong, I would say we represent two levels of the text or of Giacomo/Joyce's mind. I will say that Giacomo's sense of betrayal is undercut by the fact that he is married. And if he ended up resenting her as much as Mahaffey claims he does, he would not see her as a "Voice of wisdom" on the fifteenth page. 11 Valente, James Joyce and the Problem of Justice, 125-30. 12 McCourt, The Years of Bloom, 196. |
| SHELDON BRIVIC THE ADULTERY OF WISDOM IN GIACOMO JOYCE |