Essays for Richard Ellmann : omnium gatherum / editors, Susan Dick [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dick, Susan, Author.

Contributor:

Dick, Susan.

Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987.

Ellmann, Richard.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 499 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ellmann's sensitivity to what it meant to be an artist shaped his work from the outset: "The life of an artist ... differs from the lives of other persons in that its events are becoming artistic sources even as they command his present attention. Instead of allowing each day, pushed back by the next, to lapse into imprecise memory, he shapes again the experiences which have shaped him." Richard Ellmann died in 1987. His life and work have touched the lives of many. Some of the essays in this collection commemorate Richard Ellmann and his commitment to Twentieth Century literature: most provide a continuing investigation of the Twentieth Century literature to which he devoted his carrer. Contributors include: Alison Armstrong, Daniel Albright, Christopher Butler, Carol Cantrell, Jonathan Culler, Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Andonis Decavelles, Rupin Desai, Susan Dick, Terence Diggory, Terry Eagleton, Rosita Fanto, Charles Feidelson, James Flannery, Charles Huttar, Bruce Johnson, John Kelleher, Brendan Kennelly, Frank Kermode, Declan Kiberd, Peter Kuch, Bruce Johnson, James Laughlin, A. Walton Litz, Dominic Manganiello, Ellsworth Mason, Christie McDonald, Dougald McMillan, Sean O'Mordha, Vivian Mercier, Mary T. Reynolds, William K. Robertson, Joseph Ronsley, S.P. Rosenbaum, Ann Saddlemyer, Sylvan Schendler, Daniel Schneider, Fritz Senn, Jon Stallworthy, Lonnie Weatherby, Thomas Whitaker, and Elaine Yarosky.

Contents:

Contents

Photographs

Preface

Introduction. Richard Ellmann: The Critic As Artist

'Heroic Work, Heroic Being': Avoid The Valedictory

Ellmann's Road To Xanadu

With Dick In Dublin, 1946

Richard Ellmann's Michaux: A Publisher's Recollections

Richard Ellmann And Film Collaboration

The Oscar Wilde Playing Cards

Poems

Poem

'Oranges' Apples' sugarsticks ...' Joycean Associations: An Interview With Richard Ellmann

A Portrait Of James Joyce's Biographer

The Concept Of Modernism

A Modernist Noesis

Northrop Frye And The BiblePoe's Angels

Isabel Archer: The New Woman As American

Henry James, History, And 'Story'

Lytton Strachey And The Prose Of Empire

The Writing I Has Vanished': Virginia Woolf's Last Short Fictions

Strange Meetings: Eliot, Pound, And Laforgue

'Sufficient Ground To Stand On': Pound, Williams, And American History

D.H. Lawrence's Physical Religion: The Debt To Tylor, Frobenius, And Nuttall

Notes on a Late Poem By Stevens

The Difficult Debut Of Denis Johnston's 'Old Lady'

In Search Of Horatio's Identity (Via Yeats)Labour And Memory in the Love Poetry Of W.B. Yeats

W.B. Yeats And That High Horse

'What Can I But Enumerate Old Themes'

Yeats's Stream Of Consciousness

Yeats: The Masker And The Masks

Yours Affly, Dobbs': George Yeats To Her Husband, Winter 1931-1932

Joyce As Letter Writer

Joyce And Mythology

Mr Leopold Bloom And The Lost Vermeer

There's A Medium In All Things': Joycean Readings

Transition Years: James Joyce And Modernist Art

'All That Fall': Samuel Beckett And The Bible

Beckett's Recent Activities: The Liveliness Of Dead Imagination

The Fatal Circle: Composition And Direction Of Come And Go

The Consolation Of Art: Oscar Wilde And Dante

Wilde's Criticism: Theory And Practice

Playing In Earnest

Richard Ellmann: A Chronology

Richard Ellmann: A Bibliography

Notes

Notes On Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-6207-9