Daniel Ferrer – författare

Revival, reinvention, and regeneration: the concept of renascence pervades Joyce’s work through the inescapable presence of his literary forebears. By persistently reexamining tradition, reinterpreting his literary heritage in light of the present, and translating and re-translating from one system of signs to another, Joyce exhibits the spirit of the greatest of Renaissance writers and artists.

In fact, his writing derives some of its most important characteristics from Renaissance authors, as this collection of essays shows. Though critical work has often focused on Joyce''s relationship to medieval thinkers like Thomas Aquinas and Dante, Renascent Joyce examines Joyce''s connection to the Renaissance in such figures as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Bruno.

Joyce''s own writing can itself be viewed through the rubric of renascence with the tools of genetic criticism and the many insights afforded by the translation process. Several essays in this volume examine this broader idea, investigating the rebirth and reinterpretation of Joyce''s texts. Topics include literary historiography, Joyce''s early twentieth-century French cultural contexts, and the French translation of Ulysses. Attentive to the current state of Joyce studies, the writers of these extensively researched essays investigate the Renaissance spirit in Joyce to offer a volume at once historically informed and innovative.

An introduction to the fascinating worldof Joyce’s manuscripts

Thisbook shows how the creative process of modernist writer James Joyce can bereconstructed from his manuscripts. Daniel Ferrer offers a practicaldemonstration of the theory of genetic criticism, the study of the manuscriptand textual development of a literary text. Using a concrete approach focusedon the materiality of Joyce’s writing process, Ferrer demonstrates how torecover the process of invention and its internal dynamics.

Usingspecific, detailed examples, Ferrer analyzes the part played by chance inJoyce’s creative process, the spatial dimension of writing, thegenesis of the “Sirens” episode, and the transition from Ulysses toFinnegans Wake. The book includes a study of Joyce’s mysterious Finnegans Wake notebooks, examining theirstrange form of intertextuality in light of Joyce’s earlier forms ofnote-taking. Moving beyond the single author perspective, Ferrer contrastsJoyce’s notes alluding to Virginia Woolf’s criticism of Ulysses with Woolf’s own notes on the novel’s first episodes.

Throughoutthis book, Ferrer describes the logic of the creative process as seen in the recordleft by Joyce in notebooks, drafts, typescripts, proofs, correspondence, earlyprinted versions, and other available documents. Each change detected reveals amovement from one state to another, a new direction, challenging readers tounderstand the reasons for each movement and to appreciate the wealth ofinformation to be found in Joyce’s manuscripts.

Avolume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sam Slote

Originally published in 1990, Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language explores the relationship between madness and the disruption of linguistic and structural norms in Virginia Woolf’s modernist novels, opening new ground in Woolfian studies, as well as in psychoanalytic criticism. Focusing on Mrs Dalloway, The Waves, To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts, it investigates narrative strategies, showing that Woolf’s writings question their own origins and connection with madness and suicide. By combining textual analysis with an original use of autobiographical material, the books cause us to reconsider the full complexity of the articulation between an author’s life and work.

Originally published in 1990, Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language explores the relationship between madness and the disruption of linguistic and structural norms in Virginia Woolf’s modernist novels, opening new ground in Woolfian studies, as well as in psychoanalytic criticism. Focusing on Mrs Dalloway, The Waves, To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts, it investigates narrative strategies, showing that Woolf’s writings question their own origins and connection with madness and suicide. By combining textual analysis with an original use of autobiographical material, the books cause us to reconsider the full complexity of the articulation between an author’s life and work.