Word: joycean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STEPHEN D. is Irish Playwright Hugh Leonard's attempt to dramatize James Joyce's autobiographical tale of Stephen Dedalus. While the richly lyrical Joycean prose pleases the ear, the play is a series of vignettes that fails to bring to life the Artist as a Young Man falling from grace and faith in the fatherland and rising to meet the challenge of the world. While Stephen Joyce (no kin) gives a competent performance as the writer-hero, Stephen remains dead, alas...
...filming of Finnegans Wake required a Joycean energy from Producer-Director-Scenarist Mary Ellen Bute, 60, an American whose previous movie experience has been confined to short ; subjects. Almost inevitably, her brave effort suffers by comparison with Joseph Strick's recent version of Ulysses (TIME, March 31). Part of the problem is in the size of the task undertaken. For all its mythic dimensions, the huge superstructure of Ulysses is based largely on a single classic theme. But Finnegan cosmically takes on all history-Critic Frank O'Connor shrewdly accused Joyce the agnostic of egoistically revising...
...whole first side is saturated with sophisticated wee bits--not preciosities, but highly significant sound gags and word plays. In the writing, there are devices such as the Joycean double entendre, achieved by leaving out punctuation, in the line "And it really doesn't matter if/ I'm wrong I'm right/ Where I belong." Musically, the record has more irony than any score since Arthur Sullivan taught the British public to apprciate real musical fun. Everywhere, some electronic instrument is always plunking against a simple melody, slyly undermining it. Everywhere, a chorus of Beatles is sympathizing with the troubled...
...Germans, Englishmen and Frenchmen to get his material; and it is otherwise obvious that many of the episodes here are factual. But even in warfare, carnage is relieved by inactivity or restless boredom. The only respite Kuniczak gives his readers is short inconsequential conversations and brief bursts of attempted Joycean lyricism. Laboriously, he relates the personal agonies of a one-armed Polish general and his mistress, a disillusioned American correspondent, a Jewish conscript from the Warsaw ghetto and an idealistic young Nazi officer. Kuniczak seldom strays far from the heated sights and shrieks of battle. At any rate, he seems...
...COACH WITH THE SIX INSIDES is a kaleidoscopic view of Finnegans Wake expressed in dance and drama and some of the more devilish passages of Joycean imagery. Jean Erdman conceived and directed this bright entertainment...