Professor John Nash john.nash@durham.ac.uk
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T.S. Eliot's Views on James Joyce: The Harvard Teaching Notes
Nash, John
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Abstract
T. S. Eliot's teaching notes, made when he taught Joyce's work to a class at Harvard University in 1933, provide the substance for a re-reading of the Eliot-Joyce relationship. This essay shows that the way in which Eliot taught Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to undergraduates in the early 1930s provides compelling and detailed evidence of two substantial changes in his views of Joyce in the decade since "Ulysses, Order and Myth." First, the Harvard teaching notes reveal an Eliot who is determinedly personal, even emotional, in his reading. Second, Eliot now presents Joyce as a Catholic writer, and so the teaching notes represent a significant and previously unrecognized step in the long-running "Catholic question" in Joyce studies. In this respect, the notes provide fascinating preparations for Eliot's 1934 After Strange Gods. The significance of this shift in Eliot's appraisal of Joyce lies, I argue, not in the validity of Eliot's new opinions but in the need for Joyce studies to heed the religious contexts within which Joyce's work has been read.
Citation
Nash, J. (2019). T.S. Eliot's Views on James Joyce: The Harvard Teaching Notes. James Joyce quarterly, 56(1-2), 115-131. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2019.0044
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 11, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 7, 2019 |
Publication Date | 2019 |
Deposit Date | Jul 11, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 24, 2021 |
Journal | James Joyce quarterly. |
Print ISSN | 0021-4183 |
Publisher | University of Tulsa |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 56 |
Issue | 1-2 |
Pages | 115-131 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2019.0044 |
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