Poking the Bear:

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><strong>The impact of censorship and the Obscenity Trial on Joyce’s revisions of <em>Ulysses</em></strong></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><em>Speaker: Honorary Associate Professor Frances Devlin-Glass</em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>James Joyce was notoriously resistant to bending to censorship, even when it was demanded by friendly patrons like Ezra Pound, and much more so when he was institutionally punished. <em>Ulysses’ </em>publication in 1922 in Paris, following the high-stakes affray in the US courts which started in 1921, was a miracle. This presentation looks at Joyce’s response to his critics as he revised the novel, and argues that censorship delivered a radically different, and more daring, novel from what we might have had.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><strong>Presented by Bloomsday in Melbourne Inc. </strong>at the<strong> </strong>Sarah Sands Hotel.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p>