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Two Book Reviews by James Joyce

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2021

Richard M. Kain*
Affiliation:
University of Louisville

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PMLA , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , March 1952 , pp. 291 - 294
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1952

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Notes

1 The reviews discussed in this article were discovered by the author in July 1949 at the National Library, Dublin. They were displayed at the La Hune exhibit in Paris, Nov. 1949. See James Joyce: Sa vie, son œuvre, son rayonnement (Paris, 1949), items 165-166, with French translations of portions of the reviews.

2 James Joyce (New York, 1939), p. 80. Cf. Padraic Colum, The Road Round Ireland (New York, 1926), p. 302.

3 The United Irishman, 6 Dec. 1902.

4 Dublin Daily Express, 11 Dec. 1902.

5 The phrase is possibly echoed by Joyce in his definition of the style of Dubliners as one of “scrupulous meanness.” Cf. letter of 5 May 1906 to Grant Richards, quoted by Gorman, p. 150.

6 Ulysses (New York: Random House, 1934), p. 32.

7 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Modem Library (New York, 1928), pp. 248-251.

8 Dublin Daily Express, 26 March 1903.

9 Ulysses, pp. 213, 190.