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Isabel Archer: The New Women as American
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Photographs ix
- Preface xi
- Richard Ellmann: The Critic as Artist xiii
- Acknowledgements xix
- 'Heroic Work, Heroic Being’: Avoid the Valedictory 1
- Ellmann’s Road to Xanadu 4
- With Dick in Dublin, 1946 13
- Richard Ellmann’s Michaux: A Publisher’s Recollections 23
- Richard Ellmann and Film Collaboration 29
- The Oscar Wilde Playing Cards 31
- Poems 33
- Poems 35
- ‘Oranges—Apples—Sugarsticks…’ Joycean Associations: An Interview with Richard Ellmann1 37
- A Portrait of James Joyce’s Biographer 42
- The Concept of Modernism 49
- A Modernist Noesis 60
- Northrop Frye and the Bible 71
- Poe’s Angels 82
- Isabel Archer: The New Women as American 85
- Henry James, History, and ‘Story’ 104
- Lytton Strachey and the Prose of Empire 122
- The Writing “I” Has Vanished’: Virginia Woolf’s Last Short Fictions 134
- Strange Meetings: Eliot, Pound, and Laforgue 146
- ‘Sufficient Ground to Stand on’: Pound, Williams, and American History 153
- D.H. Lawrence’s Physical Religion: The Debt to Tylor, Frobenius, and Nuttall 161
- Notes on a Late Poem by Stevens 167
- The Difficult Debut of Denis Johnston’s ‘Old Lady' 175
- In Search of Horatio’s Identity (via Yeats) 190
- Labour and Memory in the Love Poetry of W.B. Yeats 204
- W.B. Yeats and That High Horse 220
- ‘What Can I But Enumerate Old Themes’ 234
- Yeats‘s Stream of Consciousness 253
- Yeats: The Masker and the Masks 267
- ‘Yours Affly, Dobbs’: George Yeats to Her Husband, Winter 1931-32 280
- Joyce as Letter Writer 304
- Joyce and Mythology 310
- Mr Leopold Bloom and the Lost Vermeer 320
- ‘There’s a Medium in All Things’: Joycean Readings 333
- Transition Years: James Joyce and Modernist Art 351
- ‘All That Fall’: Samuel Beckett and the Bible 360
- Beckett’s Recent Acivities: The Liveliness of Dead Imagination 374
- The Fatal Circle: Composition and Direction of Come and Go 384
- The Consolation of Art: Oscar Wilde and Dante 394
- Wilde’s Criticism: Theory and Practice 402
- Playing in Earnest 407
- Richard Ellmann: A Chronology 425
- Richard Ellmann: A Bibliography 427
- Notes 441
- Contributors 475
- Index 481
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Photographs ix
- Preface xi
- Richard Ellmann: The Critic as Artist xiii
- Acknowledgements xix
- 'Heroic Work, Heroic Being’: Avoid the Valedictory 1
- Ellmann’s Road to Xanadu 4
- With Dick in Dublin, 1946 13
- Richard Ellmann’s Michaux: A Publisher’s Recollections 23
- Richard Ellmann and Film Collaboration 29
- The Oscar Wilde Playing Cards 31
- Poems 33
- Poems 35
- ‘Oranges—Apples—Sugarsticks…’ Joycean Associations: An Interview with Richard Ellmann1 37
- A Portrait of James Joyce’s Biographer 42
- The Concept of Modernism 49
- A Modernist Noesis 60
- Northrop Frye and the Bible 71
- Poe’s Angels 82
- Isabel Archer: The New Women as American 85
- Henry James, History, and ‘Story’ 104
- Lytton Strachey and the Prose of Empire 122
- The Writing “I” Has Vanished’: Virginia Woolf’s Last Short Fictions 134
- Strange Meetings: Eliot, Pound, and Laforgue 146
- ‘Sufficient Ground to Stand on’: Pound, Williams, and American History 153
- D.H. Lawrence’s Physical Religion: The Debt to Tylor, Frobenius, and Nuttall 161
- Notes on a Late Poem by Stevens 167
- The Difficult Debut of Denis Johnston’s ‘Old Lady' 175
- In Search of Horatio’s Identity (via Yeats) 190
- Labour and Memory in the Love Poetry of W.B. Yeats 204
- W.B. Yeats and That High Horse 220
- ‘What Can I But Enumerate Old Themes’ 234
- Yeats‘s Stream of Consciousness 253
- Yeats: The Masker and the Masks 267
- ‘Yours Affly, Dobbs’: George Yeats to Her Husband, Winter 1931-32 280
- Joyce as Letter Writer 304
- Joyce and Mythology 310
- Mr Leopold Bloom and the Lost Vermeer 320
- ‘There’s a Medium in All Things’: Joycean Readings 333
- Transition Years: James Joyce and Modernist Art 351
- ‘All That Fall’: Samuel Beckett and the Bible 360
- Beckett’s Recent Acivities: The Liveliness of Dead Imagination 374
- The Fatal Circle: Composition and Direction of Come and Go 384
- The Consolation of Art: Oscar Wilde and Dante 394
- Wilde’s Criticism: Theory and Practice 402
- Playing in Earnest 407
- Richard Ellmann: A Chronology 425
- Richard Ellmann: A Bibliography 427
- Notes 441
- Contributors 475
- Index 481
