I’m not sure I have an answer to that question, especially in reference to James Joyce’s “dirty letters” to his wife and chief muse,Nora. The letters are by turns scandalous, titillating, romantic, poetic, and often downri...
Nora Barnacle JoyceJames Joyce met Nora Barnacle in June 1904. She became his common-law wife, and they had two children, Giorgio and Lucia, before formally marrying in 1931. Meanwhile, Joyce had metNora Barnacle, a young woman fromGalwaywho worked as a maid in a Dublin hotel, in June ...
Last year we featuredJames Joyce’s “dirty letters” to his wife, originally written in 1909 but not discovered in all their cerebrally erotic glory until this century. For Valentine’s Day, the sketch comedy video ...
James Joyce died in Zurich in 1941; his widow still lives there. 1 Forty-five years ago, Joyce met the good-looking, auburn-haired girl who had come from Galway to earn her living in Dublin. The natural freshness, good humour and transparent honesty of Nora Barnacle captivated the budding...
1909. James Joyce lives in Trieste (Italy) with his family. End of October, he leaves alone for Dublin on a business trip, and stays there until the end of December. He makes a pact with his wife to write to each other erotic letters. The letters of his wife disappeared, but the on...
Joycean – pungency of the ‘dirty letters’ Joyce wrote to his wife Nora Barnacle, which Stephen fought to suppress, might make any grandson want to pull up the drawbridge. Few of us can know how it feels to read that your grandfather called your grandmother his ‘brown-arsed fuckbird’...
destiny. The great nationalis leader, Charles Parnell, died in 1891 after a scandal involving his adultery with the wife of a colleague, circumstances which, among the Catholic-dominated public, caused bitter divisions: Joyce and his father mourned Parnell’s downfall and ‘bettrayal’ by his ...
James Joyce – A Mother Mrs. Kearney brought her daughter over to them, and talked to them amiably. She wanted to be on good terms with them but, while she strove to be polite, her eyes followed Mr. Holohan in his limping and devious courses. As soon as she could she excused herself...
But after reading books by James Joyce, “it really turned me on to reading, and then I started writing,” he says. After college, Patterson got his first job as a junior copy writer at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. While climbing the corporate ladder, Patterson wrote his ...
William James is not generally considered a political theorist. The main reason is that he was not one. His habitual wariness of systematics and frequent disgust at the bluster, gamesmanship, and corruption of many who aspired and rose to public office made the combination of theory and politics...