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Serving ‘a Male Philosophy’? Elizabeth Costello’s Feminism and Coetzee’s Dialogues with Joyce
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , February vol. 33 no. 1 2018;'In this essay, I show that J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello is shaped fundamentally by an engagement with Joyce’s Ulysses. However, the relationship between the two does not reveal itself in the rewriting of Joyce’s ‘Penelope’ that Costello’s literary and feminist reputation relies on, but through a range of references to ‘Scylla and Charybdis’, the ninth episode of Ulysses set in the National Library of Ireland and populated exclusively by men. Elizabeth Costello alludes to ‘Scylla and Charybdis’, I argue, because its philosophical dialogue, its dramatic form, its preoccupation with creativity, its investment in the life and reputation of the writer, and its attentiveness to the materiality of writing, offer Coetzee a model for his literary-philosophical experiments of the period. Drawing on archival evidence and published sources, the essay explores the apparent contradiction between Costello’s avowed feminist reclamation of Molly Bloom and the consistent intertextual engagement with ‘Scylla and Charybdis’, positioning the question of gender centrally within Coetzee’s broader engagement with philosophy in this period.' (Publication abstract)
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Cities That Are Not Dublin
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"I have a plan for reading Ulysses – actually more than reading it, finishing it. Today i",
2017
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , April - June no. 22 2017; -
Getting up James Joyce's Nose
2017
single work
drama
musical theatre
'Joyce famously boasted that you could rebuild Dublin from the pages of his epic, Ulysses, the most admired novel of modernity. The play, Getting up James Joyce’s Nose , takes up this challenge: could you reconstruct the smell of Joyce’s Dublin 1904 from the pages of Ulysses? Resoundingly its scripters claim, ‘Yes, Yes, Yes!’ To notice the insane meticulosity of his interest in smell, the Cinderella of the senses, and the sense most likely to be considered beneath notice by literary artists, is to be caught into Joyce’s radicalism as a thinker and his surreal comedy, and to engage with him as an artist in new ways.' (Production summary)
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Stately, Plump Buck Mulligan
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"I’ve read Ulysses twice, thrice, yet remember",
2016
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Snorkel , January no. 22 2016; -
Stone Quarry
1986
single work
short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 45 no. 4 1986; (p. 498-513) Velvet Waters 1990; (p. 71-92) Meanjin Anthology 2012; (p. 165-184) Collected Short Fiction 2018; (p. 58-76)
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Ulysses
1969
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 3 May vol. 91 no. 4651 1969; (p. 70) -
'This Will Serve to Introduce -'
1926
single work
prose
travel
— Appears in: The Home , 1 July vol. 7 no. 7 1926; (p. 18, 59, 61) -
Stone Quarry
1986
single work
short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 45 no. 4 1986; (p. 498-513) Velvet Waters 1990; (p. 71-92) Meanjin Anthology 2012; (p. 165-184) Collected Short Fiction 2018; (p. 58-76) -
The Sex Synonym in Art : 'Ulysses' and the Conquest of Disgust
1923
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Vision : A Literary Quarterly , May no. 1 1923; (p. 22-28) -
Stately, Plump Buck Mulligan
i
"I’ve read Ulysses twice, thrice, yet remember",
2016
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Snorkel , January no. 22 2016;