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Journal article
Joyce and the Politics of the Tattoo
The James Joyce Broadsheet, Vol.64, p.3
02/2003
Abstract
(Excerpt) "In 1915, as James Joyce was establishing himself in Ziarich, one Frau Koritzky was performing in a local beer hall that was frequented by many of Zuirich's avant-garde. For the price of 30 centimes (but free for artists) Frau Koritzky's husband would play the zither while she displayed her heavily tattooed thighs, arms and bosoms, which were decorated not only with vines and flowers but with portraits of such historic German figures as Wagner and Goethe. Hugo Ball, one of the founders of Dadaism, wrote that 'with her portraits', Frau Koritzky offers 'a course in the history of German music and literature. This is education, not eroticism', as Oettermann quotes in Written on the Body (Princeton, 2000)."
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- Title
- Joyce and the Politics of the Tattoo
- Publication Details
- The James Joyce Broadsheet, Vol.64, p.3
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- School of English at the University of Leeds; Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
- Identifiers
- 99381900880306600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; English
- Language
- English