1: Introductory Contexts 2: Boylansday: 16 June 1904 3: The Genesis of Leopold Bloom: 1866-86 4: Marion Tweedy-Becoming Molly: 1870-86 5: The Courtship of Leopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy: July 1886 to October 1888 6: Married Life: 1888-93 7: Life Goes On: 1893-1902 8: 7 Eccles Street: 17 June 1904 App 1: A Brief Overview and Glossary of the Kinds of Manuscripts and Documents App 2: A Census of the Extant Ulysses Manuscripts by Episodes App 3: A Chronological List of Extant Ulysses Manuscripts and Typescripts App 4: A Chronological List of Ulysses in Proofs: June 1921 to January 1922 (Paris)
Dr Luca Crispi teaches on the Anglo-Irish as well as the Modern and
Contemporary Literature MA programmes at University College Dublin.
He is founding co-editor of the Dublin James Joyce Journal and
Associate Director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School. He was
contributing co-editor of How Joyce Wrote 'Finnegans Wake': A
Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide. Previously, Crispi was James
Joyce and W.B. Yeats Research Scholar at the National
Library of Ireland and co-curator of the exhibitions 'James Joyce
and Ulysses at the National Library of Ireland' and 'Yeats: The
Life and Works of W.B. Yeats', and was the James Joyce Scholar in
Residence, the Poetry
Collection, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
sets an important mark as paradigm to be emulated in the present
phase of Joyce studies in which concern with the genetics of
Joyce's works and their texts is distinctly gaining ground. It is
Luca Crispi's pioneering achievement to have lucidly and soundly
mapped the field in terms both of material substance available to
work on and essentially, too, of method. Under the methodological
aspect, indeed, his book is to be recommended widely beyond the
confines of James Joyce studies as exemplary of how to conduct
genetic criticism, and how, and on what manner of material grounds,
to teach it.
*Hans Walter Gabler, Variants*
Becoming the Blooms is an unmissable book. Critics of Ulysses will
want to have a copy on their desk for ready consultation. Nowhere
else will you find such a staggering elucidation of the characters,
their lives and relations, and of Joyces manuscripts.
*Wim Van Mierlo, James Joyce Broadsheet Number 108*
...I expect to return frequently to Joyce's Creative Process and
the Construction of Characters in "Ulysses," not for its
chronological arrangement of the Bloom's lives or for its
often-repeated conclusions, but for the model of genetic criticism
that it offers and especially Lunita Laredo showing up a week
before publication, the evolving explanations of Bloom's courtship
hesitancies, Joyce plundering Gogarty's memory of lying on Howth
Hill, and all the other tantalizing details that Crispi offers of
Joyce at work.
*Michael Groden, James Joyce Quarterly*
Becoming the Blooms cautiously humanises the often bewilderingly
complex study of the Joycean textual process.
*Elliott Morsia, Literature & History*
Luca Crispi has given us a new format and focus for Joyce studies,
providing a fine model to authors who are engaged in archival
research, genetic studies, and character development ... if you are
inclined to follow, he will take you down into the underworld of
genetic Joyce studies.
*Christy L. Burns, James Joyce Literary Supplement*
Luca Crispis new book is both an argument for genetic criticism and
an excellent display of its fruits.
*Tim Conley, Irish University Review*
A significant addition to Joyce studies. The books extensive
research and distinctive methodology allow Crispi to demonstrate
rich and valuable insights about the compositional process of
Ulysses, representing its position as a vital book for all Joyceans
as well as any scholar working in genetic studies.
*Helen Saunders, rish Studies Review*
a thorough and thoroughly original analysis of Ulysses ... Crispi's
book serves as an object lesson in how scholarship can improve our
understanding and enjoyment of literature.
*Sam Slote, Irish Times*
Luca Crispi's meticulously researched and superbly presented study
is important both for the light it throws on Joyce's creative
methods and, more generally, for its challenge to many of our
assumptions about the way fictional characters are brought into
being. Crispi asks what the surviving manuscripts of Ulysses can
tell us about the evolution of Leopold and Molly Bloom as the novel
developed, and discovers a surprisingly fluid process of revision,
accretion and transferral of characteristics. The result is a
penetrating account of one of the most astonishing feats of
literary creativity of the twentieth century.
*Derek Attridge*
original, important, innovative, well-researched, and impeccably
produced ... the book soars.
*John McCourt, Review of English Studies*
Joyce's Creative Process marks a turning point in the James Joyce
studies because it modifies the pedagogy concerning Ulysses, a
novel regularly taught in undergraduate classes. Tackling a term as
central and apparently easy to grasp as "character," Crispi
demonstrates that no reading of Ulysses can avoid grappling with
the genesis of the text or tapping its evolutionary archive, here
synthesized with rare clarity. One cannot deny the centrality of
characterization --the fictional representation of human beings
when they become beings of paper--in the study of narratives. By
making us revise our assumptions about the main characters of
Ulysses, this book revolutionizes the study of James Joyce as a
whole.
*Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at the University of Pennsylvania*
This is the book in which genetic criticism of modernist writing
properly comes of age, demonstrating that it can not only extend
our knowledge of the mutations a text undergoes and our sense of
its open-endedness, but also genuinely and subtly illuminate the
myriad intricate movements of the creative process, and indeed
transform interpretations. Crispi's learning is formidable, his
archival research dedicated, authoritative and immensely assiduous,
and his responsiveness to textual detail impeccable. The result is
a magisterial contribution, both to Joyce scholarship, and to the
study of modernist literature in general.
*Andrew Gibson, Research Professor in Modern Literature and Theory,
Royal Holloway, University of London*
The scholarship ... is extraordinary in its detail, resulting in a
nuanced illumination of the complexity of the characters [in
Ulysses].
*Margot Norris*
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