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Latin and Roman
Culture in Joyce
by R. J. Schork
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Latin was James Joyce’s first second language and arguably
the most significant linguistic stratum in his work. This
long-awaited book provides a comprehensive review of the role of
Latin in Joyce’s life and the pervasive contribution of
Roman literature and culture to each of his works.
Topics include a demonstration of Joyce’s fascination with
the intricacies of Latin grammar and syntax; a review of the
impact of Vergil, Cicero, Horace, and Ovid on his writing; and a
survey of allusions to Roman history from Aeneas to the collapse
of the Empire. Throughout, R. J. Schork makes extensive use of
Joyce’s original composition in Latin, his notebooks, and
the Trieste and Paris libraries. A work that Joyceans will read
from cover to cover and then repeatedly consult for explications
of specific passages, this book should also prove of interest to
classical scholars curious to see the master of modern literature
abuse the subjunctive mood or the ablative plural, play with the
subjective and objective genitive, rattle off rhymed parodies of
classroom declensions, and distort Horatian tag-lines--all to
great comedic and literary effect.
R. J. Schork is professor emeritus of classics
at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and author of Sacred
Song from the Byzantine Pulpit: Romanos the Melodist (UPF,
1995).
The Florida James Joyce Series
1997. 321 pp. 6 X 9.
Tables, notes,
bibliography, index.
ISBN 0-8130-1472-7
Cloth, $55.00
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"Latin and Roman Culture in Joyce will prove a delight for those interested in any of Joyce's works, but it will be particularly rewarding to those immersed in the Sisyphean task of explicating Finnegans Wake."
-- English Literature in Transition
"Schork's is a far more comprehensive and elaborated treatment of the topic than has hitherto been
available. Although pleasurable and enlightening to read from cover to cover, this book will probably be used as a guidebook by scholars."--Choice
"Exceptionally well written in a lively, often funny,
attention-arresting style. . . . A tour de force
explanation of the enormous body of secular classical allusion
and language in Joyce’s work . . . [it] will become a staple
of Joyce reference and criticism."--Zack Bowen, University
of Miami
"Fills a definite gap in our knowledge of Joyce . . . covers
all of Joyce’s work, offers important insights into his mind
and his artistic methods. . . . One of the handful of books which
are absolutely necessary for anyone who wants to know Joyce
thoroughly."--Robert Adams Day, Queens College, City
University of New York
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