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John McCourt
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John McCourt (PhD) was born in Dublin in 1965 and educated at Belvedere
College and University College Dublin. Since 1991 he has lived in Trieste,
where he teaches at the University of Trieste and where he founded and
directs (with Professor Renzo S. Crivelli) the annual Trieste Joyce
School. He is president of the Italian-Irish cultural association, La
Bottega Joyce, and author of The
Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920 (Dublin: Lilliput
Press and Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) and James
Joyce: A Passionate Exile (an illustrated biography, London: Orion
Books and New York: St Martin's Press, 2000). He is the author of several
articles on Joyce and on contemporary Irish literature and and has
co-edited an edition of
Dubliners with Professor Francesca Romana Paci (Napoli: Loffreddo
Editore, 1997).
La ricerca è incentrata sulla ricostruzione
degli anni triestini di James Joyce, con un particolare interesse per la
critica joyciana e per gli aspetti linguistici della sua produzione
letteraria (specie in Giacomo Joyce). Si sono anche affrontati autori come
Trollope (patriota irlandese) e Bernard MacLaverty (Grace Notes), ed è
stato affrontato il problema dell'insegnamento della lingua, con
particolare riferimento alla lingua letteraria.
Recent pubblications:
- The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste
1904-1920. Dublin: Lilliput Press and Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2000. A paperback edition was published in June 2001.
An extended Italian edition will be published by Mondadori in 2004. A
Spanish translation entitled Los Anos de esplendor and translated
by Juan José Utrilla was published by Turner/Fondo de Cultura in Madrid
in November 2002;
- James Joyce: A Passionate Exile
(an illustrated biography), London: Orion Books, and New York: St
Martin's Press, 2000;
- Dario De Tuoni, Ricordo di Joyce a
Trieste/A Recollection of Joyce in Trieste. Joint editor with Renzo
S.Crivelli. Trieste: MGS Press, 2002;
- The James Joyce Quarterly. Special
Issue. Joyce and Trieste. Guest Editor (and contributor). Volume 38,
nos. 3-4, Spring 2001;
- "Packaging the Peace: An analysis of The
Irish Times's presentation of the Easter 1998 Northern Ireland
Settlement" in Forms of Promotion: Texts, Contexts, Cultures. Ed.
Nicoletta Vasta. Bologna: Patron, Autumn 2003;
- "Joycean Multimodalities. A preliminary
investigation of Giacomo Joyce", Journal of Modern Literature, Spring
2003;
- "Reading Ellmann reading Joyce", in John
Nash ed., Joyce's Audiences. European Joyce Studies, 14. Amsterdam/New
York, Rodopi, 2002;
- "Domesticating the Other. Phineas Finn:
Trollope's Patriotic Irishman", in Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 12, ed.,
Francesco Marroni. Pescara: Edizioni Tracce, 2002;
- "Epiphanies of Language, Longing,
Liminality in Giacomo Joyce" in Lawrence James and Clare Wallace (eds.),
Envoys of the Other: Giacomo Joyce. New York: Maunsell, 2002;
- "My words in her Mind. Amalia Popper
prima traduttrice di Joyce" in James Joyce, Araby. Traduzione e
biografia essenziale di Amalia Popper. Empoli: Ibiskos Editrice, 2002,
5-13;
- "Dario de Tuoni - James Joyce:
Un'amicizia letteraria/Dario de Tuoni - James Joyce, A Literary
Friendship" in Ricordo di Joyce a Trieste/A Recollection of Joyce in
Trieste. Trieste: MGS Press, 2002, 7-22 and 75-90;
- "The Triestine Joyce" in The James Joyce
Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3, Autumn, 2002;
- "Voicing the Feminine: Bernard
MacLaverty's Grace Notes", Roma: Englishes, 2000, 46-67;
- Dermot Healy" in Post-War Literatures in
English, Groningen: Martinus Nijhoff uitgevers, 2000, 1-23;
- Afterword entitled "Spremna Beseda" to
James Joyce: Izbrana poezija in kratka proza (Selected prose and poetry
by James Joyce), Ljubljana: DZS d. d., Zaloznistvo literature, 2000,
337-352;
- "Giacomo of Trieste: James Joyce on the
Adriatic". Gorizia: Laboratorio Europeo, 2000, 1-30.
Contact:
Dott. John McCourt
Lettore di Madrelingua
Afferente al
Centro Linguistico d'Ateneo
Programme Director della
Trieste Joyce School
Studio: Mansarda, via Lazzaretto Vecchio 8, IV piano
Telefono: 040-558 7238
E-mail: mccourt@units.it
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