Comparative Literary Dimensions: Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Friedman

by Friedman, Melvin J.; Halio, Jay L.; Siegel, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780874137156
• ISBN10: 0874137152
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
Introduction	11	(8)
Jay L. Halio
Ben Siegel
Part II: Theories of Literature: James Joyce and Others
Theory of Comedy from Dante to Joyce	19	(12)
Haskell M. Block
The Medium of History: Robert Graves and the Ancient Past	31	(20)
Clayton Koelb
Part III: Fresh Glances at James Joyce
Bakhtin, Joyce, and the Epic Tradition	51	(10)
Zack Bowen
``I pity your oldself I was used to'': Finnegans Wake and the Aesthetics of Aging	61	(14)
Michael Patrick Gillespie
The Washerwomen Skit Adapted from Finnegans Wake	75	(10)
Margaret Rogers
Part IV: New Views of Samuel Beckett
Beckett's Happy Days, Burton, and Schopenhauer	85	(12)
James Acheson
Beckett [f]or Nothing	97	(12)
Raymond Federman
Beckett Briefly on the Nature of Everything: A Reading of Texts for Nothing in the Half-Light of Greek Philosophy	109	(20)
Livio Dobrez
``A Sup of the Hawk's, or the Saints'': Beckett and Irish Theater	129	(8)
James Liddy
Part V: Perspectives Ethnic and Cultural
Virginia Woolf's Construction of Masculinity: A Narrative Model---A Reading of Mrs. Dalloway	137	(14)
Richard Pearce
Zangwill's The Melting Pot and Nichols's Abie's Irish Rose	151	(11)
Owen Aldridge
Celine's Ultimate Focalization, or the Two Faces of Paranoia in Bagatelles pour un massacre and Feerie pour une autre fois: Toward a Theory of Paranoid Writing	162	(13)
David Hayman
Writing to Overcome (Escribir superar): Luisa Valenzuela	175	(10)
Debra A. Castillo
Ethnicity and Authenticity: Wilson Harris and Other ``Black'' Writing	185	(22)
Mark Williams
Part VI: Bibliography
Melvin J. Friedman: A Bibliography	207	(10)
Jackson R. Bryer
Judith Friedman
Judith Couillard
Marc Singer
Contributors	217	(4)
Index	221