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Odyssey of the Psyche
Jungian Patterns in Joyce's Ulysses
Jean Kimball
Southern Illinois University Press, 1997

The result of the interaction between Bloom and Dedalus, Kimball argues as a central tenet in her unique reading of Ulysses, is the gradual development of a relationship between the two protagonists that parallels C. G. Jung’s descriptions of the encounter between the Ego and the Shadow in that stage of his theoretical individuation process called "the realization of the shadow." These parallels form a unifying strand of meaning that runs throughout this multidimensional novel and is supported by the text and contexts of Ulysses.

Kimball has provided the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Jungian psychology and Joyce’s Ulysses. Bucking critical trends, she focuses on Stephen rather than Bloom. She also notes certain parallels—synchronicities—in the lives of both Jung and Joyce, not because the men influenced one another but because they speculated about personality at the same historical time. Finally, noting that both Jung and Joyce came from strong Christian backgrounds, she asserts that the doubleness of the human personality fundamental to Christian theology is carried over into Jung’s psychology and Joyce’s fiction.

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Opposing Patriarchy
Women and the Law in Action in Pre-Unification Italy (1815–1865)
Sara Delmedico
University of London Press, 2021
Opposing Patriarchy explores women’s increasing political activism in nineteenth-century Italy. 

In Italy and beyond, the nineteenth century was a time of great political change. Shifts in state boundaries and socio-economic structures deeply affected the Italian political landscape, including the nation’s legal system. Many Italian women, who had lived within a strict patriarchal and hierarchical society, began to redefine their identities beyond the traditional domestic roles of daughter, wife, and mother. This volume charts that process by focusing on women’s attitudes towards the law and their interaction with the legal system. Sara Delmedico seeks to recover the forgotten voices and lives of those ordinary women who, in their everyday lives, reacted against the limitations and constraints imposed upon them by society and who refused to accept their status passively. As this volume shows, the women of the period understood the law, questioned obedience, challenged authority, and stood up for themselves. Even though they did not always achieve their goals, their actions contributed to shaping our present.
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Otherworld Women in Early Irish Literature
Heather Key
Amsterdam University Press, 2023
In early Ireland, there were many names for what scholars have dubbed the ‘Otherworld’: the Plain of Delights, the Land of Youth, the Land of Promise, and more. Many of the myths and legends from this period involve an encounter between a hero and a woman from this Otherworld, with sufficient frequency to form a distinct theme within the literature. This book examines the particularities and consequences of these otherworldly encounters, attending in particular to the question of gender and the social dynamics at work. Five stories purportedly from the lost book Cín Dromma Snechta receive detailed analysis, alongside material from other sources, in order to reconstruct the mindset of the early Irish who told these stories about the Otherworld and their views about women in general.
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Our Joyce
From Outcast to Icon
By Joseph Kelly
University of Texas Press, 1997

James Joyce began his literary career as an Irishman writing to protest the deplorable conditions of his native country. Today, he is an icon in a field known as "Joyce studies." Our Joyce explores this amazing transformation of a literary reputation, offering a frank look into how and for whose benefit literary reputations are constructed.

Joseph Kelly looks at five defining moments in Joyce's reputation. Before 1914, when Joyce was most in control of his own reputation, he considered himself an Irish writer speaking to the Dublin middle classes. When T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound began promoting Joyce in 1914, however, they initiated a cult of genius that transformed Joyce into a prototype of the "egoist," a writer talking only to other writers.

This view served the purposes of Morris Ernst in the 1930s, when he defended Ulysses against obscenity charges by arguing that geniuses were incapable of obscenity and that they wrote only for elite readers. That view of Joyce solidified in Richard Ellmann's award-winning 1950s biography, which portrayed Joyce as a self-centered genius who cared little for his readers and less for the world at war around him. The biography, in turn, led to Joyce's canonization by the academy, where a "Joyce industry" now flourishes within English departments.

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Out of due time
Wilfrid Ward and the Dublin review
Paschal Scotti
Catholic University of America Press, 2006
Following the tradition of the great literary quarterlies, the journal discussed every aspect of human endeavor, and Out of Due Time offers a fine opportunity to view the best of the Catholic mind in an extraordinary period.
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