CRITICISM

Anastasi, William, and Michael Seidel. “Jarry in Joyce: A Conversation.” Joyce Studies Annual 6 (1995): 39-58.

Interview with the artist William Anastasi, whose work draws upon that of Alfred Jarry and James Joyce and argues that Jarry was an influence on Joyce and that Shem, the Parisian twin in Finnegans Wake, is partially based on Alfred Jarry.

Bridgeman, Teresa. “On the Likeness of Similes and Metaphors (With Special Reference to Alfred Jarry's Les Jours et Les Nuits.” Modern Language Review 91, no. 1 (January 1996): 65-77.

Essay examines the slippage between simile and metaphor in Jarry's second novel.

Corcoran, Marlena. “Drawing Our Attention to Jarry, Duchamp, and Joyce: The Manuscript/Art of William Anastasi.” James Joyce Quarterly 32, nos. 3-4 (spring-summer 1995): 659-71.

Examines the work of writer/graphic artist William Anastasi, who incorporates the ideas and works of Alfred Jarry, Marcel Duchamp and James Joyce in his art.

Fell, Jill. “The Deceptive Images of Alfred Jarry: Lost, Found, and Invented Portraits by Beardsley, Rousseau and Rippl-Ronaï.” Word & Image 15, no. 2 (April-June 1999): 190-98.

Interdisciplinary essay about how contemporaries in Jarry's artistic circle attempted to “capture” Jarry's likeness in art, and discusses Jarry's multiple public personae, along with his contemporaries' reactions.

Greenfield, Anne. “Camus's Caligula, Ubu and the Surrealist Rebel.” Romance Notes 26, no. 2 (winter 1985): 83-9.

Compares Camus's Caligula and Jarry's Ubu as examples of surrealist rebels.

Koos, Leonard R. “Comic Cruelty: Artaud and Jarry.” In Antonin Artaud and the Modern Theater, edited by Gene A. Plunka, pp. 37-50. Rutherford, New Jersey: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994.

Essay in a book-length work on Antonin Artaud suggests that the Theâtre du Alfred Jarry, which was founded in 1926, had enormous influence on the development of Artaud's Comedy of Cruelty.

Lennon, Nigey, and Bill Griffith. Alfred Jarry: The Man with the Axe. Los Angeles: Panjandrum Books, 1984. 128 p.

Short, illustrated book for a general audience focuses on Jarry's unusual personae.

Motte, Warren F. “Clinamen Redux.” Comparative Literature Series 23, no. 4 (winter 1986): 263-81.

Philosophical essay, on the concept of “clinamen atomorum”—literally, swerve of atoms—briefly considers Alfred Jarry's fascination with the concept of “clinamen” and free will in Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll, Pataphysicien.

Reed, Alice Gray. “Le Corbusier's ‘Ubu’ Sculpture: Remaking an Image.” Word & Image 14, no. 3 (July-September 1998): 215-26.

Historically-grounded essay examines the Ubu drawings, paintings and sculptures Le Corbusier worked on from 1942 to 1965, speculating on the meaning of Jarry's character to Le Corbusier's art.

Schumacher, Claude. “Some Aspects of Blasphemy and Religion in Contemporary French Theatre.” Assaph C: Studies in Theatre 6 (1990): 103-16.

Essay on blasphemy and religion in the theater which argues that the history of contemporary theater began with the performance of Ubu Roi on December 9 and 10, 1896.

Simpson, Juliet. “Symbolist Aesthetics and the Decorative Image/Text.” French Forum 25, no. 2 (May 2000): 177-204.

Discussion on the French Symbolists which includes a brief discussion of Jarry's early works.

Stokes, John. “Beardsley/Jarry: The Art of Deformation.” In Reconsidering Aubrey Beardsley, edited by Robert Langenfeld, pp. 55-69. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1989.

Essay searches for the origins of modernism in the parallel development and creative friendship of the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley and Alfred Jarry.

Turner, Elizabeth Hutton. “La Jeune Fille Américaine and the Dadaist Impulse.” In Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender and Identity, edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, pp. 4-21. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.

Interdisciplinary essay examines the trope of a Mary Pickfordesque American girl as portrayed by the French Dadaists and includes a discussion of the character Ellen in Jarry's novel, Le Sûrmale.

Additional coverage of Jarry's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 104, 153; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 192, 258; DISCovering Authors Modules: Dramatists; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Drama for Students, Vol. 8; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; European Writers, Vol. 9; Guide to French Literature 1789 to the Present; Literature Resource Center; Reference Guide to World Literature, Eds. 2, 3; Short Story Criticism, Vol. 20; Twayne's World Authors; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 2, 14