February 15, 2012 Reading Group Agenda

Novella: “May Day”
Short Story: ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”
Both are part of the public domain and can be found for free on such sites as “feedbook.com”.
The library also has a collections of Fitzgerald stories in which they can be found.
Please contact me if you have difficulty obtaining.
Betty Muessle 941 358 1705 or bettymuessle@gmail.com

James Joyce Birthday Party 2012

HE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA

invites you to its annual

James Joyce Birthday Celebration

Thursday, February 2, 2012

presenting a program featuring

Topic: Hemingway's “A Moveable Feast” and The Lost Generation
Speaker: Phyllis Jaffe, Joycean Scholar


and

Musical Selections - before and after the lecture Performed
by: Olivia Swaan, Dublin born and trained Singer and Irish Harpist


Place

The Crocker Memorial Church

at Historical Society of Sarasota County

1260 12th Street - between N. Tamiami Trail and Cocoanut Ave.

(on-grounds parking available)


Time

2:00 - 4:00 PM
Following the Program, Join Us for
Refreshments and Joyce's 130th Birthday Cake

For more information contact Joe Sullivan at (941) 925-7191 or
Betty Muessle 941 544 5049

Electic (Irish-American) Lit Schedule Nov 30, 2011-12

James Joyce Society of Sarasota
Eclectic Reading Group
Irish Literature Agenda for Autumn Winter Spring 2011-2012
Dear Readers,
Cited below is a list of works on the agenda for this Season’s Eclectic Reading Group. The selections have been based on The Group’s decision to study American Irish writers. I hope you will find them adequately representative of the intended purpose.
Most of the texts are readily available in our library system or, if you prefer to purchase, are inexpensively procurable on the internet.
I hope you will not mind purchasing, The Exiles of Erin, as it might difficult to find for loan. It is a marvelous read dealing with nineteenth century Irish- American literature and its different phases of development. It can be found online, used or new. If you decide to buy it new and would like me to order it for you with free shipping from Barnes and Noble, please advise.
If you indicate that you will be attending the session scheduled for James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan, I will provide you with copies of the selections which we will be reading.
Books:
• Fanning, Charles, The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction.
• Farrell, James T, Studs Lonigan
• Mary Gordon, The Love of My Youth
• O’Connor, Flannery, The Complete Stories
• Toole, John Kennedy, A Confederacy of Dunces
Group will choose April Selection:
• McDermott, Alice, Wakes and Weddings
• McCann, Colum, Songdogs.
• Kennedy, William, Ironweed
• Or Other Group Suggested Work
The meetings are scheduled to begin on Wednesday, November 30. They are planned to occur on the second and fourth weeks of the month 10-11:30AM.. Most will be at the North Library. Dates : 2/22, 3/28, Location will be announced.

RSVP intentions of participating by emailing to BettyMuessle@gmail.com or calling 941 358 1705.
Best to All,
Betty

The James Joyce Society (Irish American Literature) for2011-12
Info: Betty Muessle 941 358 1705, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 10-11:30AM
Nov 30 North Library
The Exiles of Erin, Discussion of Introduction, pp 1-17, discussion of intro, part 1, Satiric Voices. Pp 19-23.
Anon, “The Life of Paddy O’Flarrity”, Anon, “Six months in a House of Correction”, John McDermont Moore “The Adventures of Tom Stapleton”.
Dec 14 North Library
The Exiles of Erin,
Part II: Intro :” Famine Generation: Practical Fiction for Immigrants”, Mary Anne Sadlier ,“The Blakes and The Flannigans”, Charles Cannon, ’Bickerton; or, The Immigrant’s Daughter”, Hugh Quigley, “The Cross and The Shamrock”
Part III : The Third Generation: Literature for A New Middle Class: James W Sullivan: “Slob Murphy”, Katherine Conway , “Labor’s Maple Finley Peter Dunne, “Mr. Dooley’s Bridgeport Chronicle”.
Dec 28 North Library
Excerpts(hand outs) from Studs Lonigan . Farrell, James T, (Ed. Charles Fanning )
Introduction in Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor and short story “The Greanium “ .
Jan 11 North Library
Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor : “The River”,” The life You Save May Be Your Own”, “The Displaced Person”
Jan 25 North Library
Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor: “Good Country People”, “Revelations”, “Everything that Rises must Converge”
Feb 8 North Library and Feb 22 Location TBA
A Confederacy of Dunces , John Kennedy Toole
March 14 North Library and March 28 Location TBA
The Love of My Youth, by Mary Gordon
April 11 and April 25 : Reading TBD by Group

Lost Generation Reading Group Update

From: JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA
"The Lost Generation" Reading Group

We would like to bring you all up-to-date now that many of our snowbirds are returning.
Fifteen Joyceans attended our first session on October 5th which was devoted to an introduction to the Lost Generation and a discussion of two F. Scott Fitzgerald short stories set during this period. So we got all to a good start.

At our second session on October 10th, twenty Joyceans and two guests came to hear Pat White give a stimulating presentation of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. She kept us solidly engrossed with her scholarly analysis of this not-so-simple memoir. Thanks Pat.
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NEXT MEETING: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd

TOPIC: Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, perhaps the iconic novel of the Lost Generation

We had planned to devote two sessions to the study of this novel: however, since we had so many other works which we wished to include in our study, we decided to limit our discussion of this novel to one session. This, of course, is no easy task.
To make it easier to address the entire novel immediately--without extensive background material on Hemingway--we are asking all of you who plan to attend this session to prepare in advance by going to GOOGLE to find the article on "Ernest Hemingway" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article, seventeen pages in length, is excellently organized. It covers the most important events in Hemingway's life (actually it is a short biography) and important insights into his works. Please concentrate on the last five pages which include the titles: "Writing Style," "Themes," and "Influences and Legacy."

See you all on November 2nd.
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Reading Schedule Autmn 2011 Update

James Joyce Society of Sarasota

A N N O U N C E M E N T

This is an update of our fall reading schedule focused on “The Lost Generation.”
First, we would like to remind you once again to read Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises as soon as you can so you will be prepared for our discussions in October. Inexpensive copies of both books are available through Barnes & Noble and Amazon Books.
Below are the dates of the first five sessions offered this fall.
These session, as in the past, fall on the First and the Third Wednesdays of each month, unless otherwise indicated. Time: 10:00 AM Place: North Library

October 5:
--Introduction to “The Lost Generation”
--F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories: “Babylon Revisited” and “One Trip Abroad”

[NOTE: Copies of these stories will be mailed to those attending the first session on
Oct. 5. You will receive them two weeks before the meeting. So please contact
us—via e-mail or phone—to let us know you’ll be there Oct. 5 and we will mail
the stories to you. Please include your address.

October 19:
--Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast.

November 2:
--Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

November 16:
--“Prominent Women Writers of the Lost Generation” – which will include
selections from Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, et. al.

[NOTE: Copies of these selections will be handed out at the Nov. 2 meeting.]

December 7:
--“Poets of the Lost Generation: -which will include selections from T.S. Eliot,
Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, E. E. Cummings, et al.

[NOTE: These selections will be distributed at the Nov. 16 meeting.]

Descriptions of the sessions on December 21 and January 4 and 18 will
be announced at a later date.

P. S. It would be helpful to let us know if you intend to join this group.
Ray Matienzo: (941) 922-4445 raymayday@comcast.net
Margaret Hoffman (941) 358-5827 margli@verizon.net

Reading Group Autumn 2011

James Joyce Society of Sarasota

A n n o u n c e m e n t

We would like all you Joyceans to know that we have been preparing for our reading group sessions for this fall season. The THEME is:

“The Lost Generation in Paris”

The literature of the most influencial writers who were part of
this exciting literary period.

PLACE: North Library
TIME: 10:00 AM – Noon
DATES: The 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of October, November,
December, and January.

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Why this theme? Well, it is a lead-up to Joyce’s 130th Birthday Celebration.
and the 90th Anniversary of Sylvia Beach’s publication of Ulysses. It is a pleasure to announce that the speaker at this February Birthday Event will be:
Professor Noel Riley Fitch
author of
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
“A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties”

Noel Riley Fitch has taught at the American University of Paris for two decades. She has written other books, most of which have Paris as a theme. They include:
Anais: The Erotic Life of Anais Nin (1993), Appetite for Life: the Biography of
Julia Child (1997), Walks in Hemingway’s Paris, and Literary Cafes of Paris.
Her books have been translated into several languages including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, and Dutch.
Ms. Fitch was presented with the Prix Tour Montparnasse 2011 for the recent translation in French under the title, Sylvia Beach: Une Americaine a Paris.

Sylvia Beach, as many of you know, founded Shakespeare and Company
Bookshop, on the Rue de L’Odean in Paris, and it soon became the center of international literature. Beach was also the publisher of Joyce’s Ulysses, working assiduously with Joyce through all the vicissitudes attending the preparation and printing of the novel. Carlos Baker (who wrote the authorized biography of Hemingway) observes that “[Beach] also served as cheerful den-mother to hundreds of writers, artists, and composers. Ms. Fitch tells the story of these friendships, specifically with those ex-patriots whom we identify with the “Lost Generation.”

So, our fall sessions will focus on the writers of “The Lost Generation”
by way of preparation for Professor Fitch’s presentation.
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The Lost Generation is the label applied to the American writers, most
of whom were born around 1900, and many who fought in the First World War.
These were writers who came of age during the war years and established their reputations in the 1920s – more broadly, the entire post-World War I American generation.
The writers considered themselves “lost” because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world and they felt spiritually alienated from a country they considered hopelessly provincial and emotionally barren. In addition, many of them were disillusioned with the world in general and unwilling to move into a settled life. They wanted to divorce themselves from the 19th century in order to find new means of expression—writing which would soon become 20th century modernism.
The term “lost” embraces many writers, among those were Ernest Hemingway, F.Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Djuna Barnes, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Hart Crane and, later, Henry Miller. They were significantly influenced by T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.

The selections being considered for this fall’s sessions will include novels, short stories, poems, and essays. The complete list of reading selections will be announced at a later date.
We do suggest, however, that you get a head start and read over the summer Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (novel) and A Moveable Feast (memoire). These two works will definitely be included. [Both are offered at bargain prices on-line at Amazon and Barnes and Nobles.]
We also recommend you see Woody Allen’s entertaining Midnight in Paris,
and for those of you who use Netflix order Paris was a Woman, an impressive documentary.

We also believe that reading, as a reference work, Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, would be useful in understanding the literary works that we will be reading in the study group as well as the complex relationships between Joyce and Beach. Used/new copies are available on-line through Barnes & Nobles starting at $1.50 + shipping and from Amazon starting at $4.41 + shipping.

We expect this to be an exciting study group and hope that you will join us. If there are any questions, contact one of the coordinators below:

Ray Matienzo . . . . . . (941) 922-4445
Margaret Hoffman. . . (941) 358-5827
Tom Steiner . . . . . . . (917) 843-4190


Enjoy the rest of your summer . . . and remember that October 5th (the first meeting date) will be here before you know it!

May 18, 2011 Reading Group Cancelled

Meetings will resume in the Autumn.

Reading list for next season will be posted over the Summer.

If you wish membership information, please call Betty Muessle at 941 358 1705 to be connected to our Membership Chairs.