October 1st, 2009 / 11:36 am
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Catherine Lacey
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More talk of Joyce, because we all know y’all love Joyce.
Lucia Joyce: Troubled Spawn
Speaking of James Joyce, check out this post on MobyLives about the latest on the Joyce estate’s “disgusting” attempt at censorship.
Here’s a little quote from The Stanford News about some of the nastiness that’s been going on:
Stephen Joyce has stopped countless public readings of his grandfather’s works and discouraged a generation of research. At one point, he told a prominent Joyce scholar that he was no longer giving permission to quote from any of Joyce’s work. He told one performer, who had simply memorized a portion of Finnegans Wake for an onstage presentation, that he had probably “already infringed” on the estate’s copyright, according to a 2006 New Yorker story.
Tags: James Joyce, stephen joyce
Lucia Joyce: hot or not?
Lucia Joyce: hot or not?
Hot. She’s totally giving us the hand.
Hot. She’s totally giving us the hand.
This brings up a good argument. Let’s say you (the universal ‘you’) becomes an author who requires an estate after you die. Is it better to trust this estate to a set of lawyers and not your family…. how do you go about choosing these things…. is it better to document in your will that you request such an estate become ‘free domain’ (if that is even the right term for the idea I am trying to convey)…
Harking back to that Dan Nester essay J. Taylor posted where Nester discusses poets who act badly. Who are rude, etc etc. Most times writers get a free card to be dickheads. We’re ‘free spirited’ or whatever. We don’t ‘conform to the rules of the fucking establishment’ and so forth. Should we be nicer in the light we’re gonna die and then someone else besides us is gonna have to deal with our remains (both literary and physical)? Or can we just use our money to buy and burn all remaining copies of whatever’s been published and then poof.
(Updike and Roth would go poor…)
This brings up a good argument. Let’s say you (the universal ‘you’) becomes an author who requires an estate after you die. Is it better to trust this estate to a set of lawyers and not your family…. how do you go about choosing these things…. is it better to document in your will that you request such an estate become ‘free domain’ (if that is even the right term for the idea I am trying to convey)…
Harking back to that Dan Nester essay J. Taylor posted where Nester discusses poets who act badly. Who are rude, etc etc. Most times writers get a free card to be dickheads. We’re ‘free spirited’ or whatever. We don’t ‘conform to the rules of the fucking establishment’ and so forth. Should we be nicer in the light we’re gonna die and then someone else besides us is gonna have to deal with our remains (both literary and physical)? Or can we just use our money to buy and burn all remaining copies of whatever’s been published and then poof.
(Updike and Roth would go poor…)
Stephen Joyce is the bearded cartoon enemy of Joyce scholarship. I’m glad he finally had to cough up some money
Stephen Joyce is the bearded cartoon enemy of Joyce scholarship. I’m glad he finally had to cough up some money
The Ulysses instructor I had mentioned that there’s “Lost Ulysses” material that would be published at some point soon, but I’ve never been able to find any mention of it online. Anyone know about this?
The Ulysses instructor I had mentioned that there’s “Lost Ulysses” material that would be published at some point soon, but I’ve never been able to find any mention of it online. Anyone know about this?
Joyce’s unpublished writing goes into the public domain in 2012. Maybe he’s talking about that? Ulysses drafts, journals etc will be cool to see. Stephen will probably tie it up in litigation until he dies, though.
Joyce’s unpublished writing goes into the public domain in 2012. Maybe he’s talking about that? Ulysses drafts, journals etc will be cool to see. Stephen will probably tie it up in litigation until he dies, though.
Joyce did have a literary executor — Harriet Shaw Weaver, who’d also been his patron and major financial backer for much of his life. Her attitude about the release of Joyce’s work — both public and private — was quite different from Stephen’s.
Much of Stephen’s clout (other than what’s in his mind and nowhere else) comes from the fact that he’s the sole biological heir. So if you want to avoid your grandchild screwing up academic scholarship about your work 40 years after you die, reconsider the Duggar family model — better odds.
Joyce did have a literary executor — Harriet Shaw Weaver, who’d also been his patron and major financial backer for much of his life. Her attitude about the release of Joyce’s work — both public and private — was quite different from Stephen’s.
Much of Stephen’s clout (other than what’s in his mind and nowhere else) comes from the fact that he’s the sole biological heir. So if you want to avoid your grandchild screwing up academic scholarship about your work 40 years after you die, reconsider the Duggar family model — better odds.
hot
hot
What could be the motivations behind this moron and stopping people from engaging with his grandfather? Doesn’t more coverage, more investigation, more publicity mean more money for him anyway. I don’t understand this for one moment.
What could be the motivations behind this moron and stopping people from engaging with his grandfather? Doesn’t more coverage, more investigation, more publicity mean more money for him anyway. I don’t understand this for one moment.
Lucia Joyce = the best.
Lucia Joyce = the best.