Author: David Pierce
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317865073
Size: 17.42 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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`Is there one who understands me?' So wrote James Joyce towards the end of his final work, Finnegans Wake. The question continues to be asked about the author who claimed that he had put so many enigmas into Ulysses that it would `keep the professors busy for centuries' arguing over what he meant. For Joyce this was a way of ensuring his immortality, but it could also be claimed that the professors have served to distance Joyce from his audience, turning his writings into museum pieces, pored over and admired, but rarely touched. In this remarkable book, steeped in the learning gained from a lifetime's reading, David Pierce blends word, life and image to bring the works of one of the great modern writers within the reach of every reader. With a sharp eye for detail and an evident delight in the cadences of Joyce's work, Pierce proves a perfect companion, always careful and courteous, pausing to point out what might otherwise be missed. Like the best of critics, his suggestive readings constantly encourage the reader back to Joyce's own words. Beginning with Dubliners and closing with Finnegans Wake, Reading Joyce is full of insights that are original and illuminating, and Pierce succeeds in presenting Joyce as an author both more straightforward and infinitely more complex than we had perhaps imagined. T. S. Eliot wrote of Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, that it is `a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape'. With David Pierce as a guide, the debt we owe to Joyce becomes clearer, and the need to flee is greatly reduced.
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Author: Trevor L. Williams
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 9780813015132
Size: 77.16 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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More importantly, however, Williams shows how in Joyce the paralysis is always provisional, and explores the ways in which Joyce's characters do indeed demonstrate means of resistance to the British state, to class distinctions, to clerical hegemony, and to power imbalances in familial and sexual relationships.
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Author: Colette Soler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429830424
Size: 67.97 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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This book discusses Jacques Lacan’s contribution to understanding the life and work of James Joyce, introducing Colette Soler’s influential reading to English readers for the first time. Focusing on Lacan’s famous Seminar on Joyce, the reader will no doubt learn much from Lacan, but also, as Soler shows, what Lacan learned from Joyce and what perhaps, without him, he would not have approached with so much confidence. Le Sinthome. This is the title Jacques Lacan chose for his seminar devoted to Joyce in 1975–76. He wrote the word 'sinthome' in its original spelling, from the Greek, and thus used the technique so dear to Joyce: the equivocation between the sound that is heard and the graphic representation that is seen. Is it surprising that the author who recognised in 1956 with 'The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious' that the Freudian practice of speech revealed an unconscious that writes – something Jacques Derrida found quite remarkable – would end in 1975–76 with Joyce? Lacan Reading Joyce will be of great interest to professional and academic readers in the respective fields of Lacan and Joyce studies, including psychoanalysts in practice and training, as well as researchers and students in psychoanalytic and modern literary studies.
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Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 32.16 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Author: Andrew Gibson
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051835465
Size: 44.81 MB
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: J. Young
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780050039793
Size: 13.86 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349214140
Size: 74.41 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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Reissued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Reading Joyce's 'Ulysses' includes a new preface taking account of scholarly and critical development since its original publication. It shows how the now important issues of post-colonialism, feminism, Irish Studies and urban culture are addressed within the text, as well as a discussion of how the book can be used by both beginners and seasoned readers. Schwarz not only presents a powerful and original reading of Joyce's great epic novel, but discusses it in terms of a dialogue between recent and more traditional theory. Focusing on what he calls the odyssean reader, Schwarz demonstrates how the experience of reading Ulysses involves responding both to traditional plot and character, and to the novel's stylistic experiments.
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Author: Alan Roughley
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 9780813016849
Size: 70.45 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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"The first full-length study of Jacques Derrida's criticism based upon the works of James Joyce. It is a brilliantly explicated study, clearly written, and eminently sensible. It will be the last word on the subject for years to come."--Zack Bowen, University of Miami This book analyzes Derrida's uses of Joyce within his own work and demonstrates how Joyce's writings operate deconstructively. The complex and tantalizing relationship between the two men has intrigued Joyceans and Derrideans alike. Alan Roughley here offers remarkable readings of both Joyce and Derrida texts, in particular of Finnegans Wake and Glas. Exploring how Joyce's ghost haunts many of Derrida's major writings, Roughley concentrates on two areas: how Derrida reads Joyce and sees his work as deconstructive and how English-speaking Joyceans have made use of Derrida's theories. Long overdue, this is the first major comprehensive study of the relationship between Joyce and Derrida. It demonstrates specific ways in which the major works of one of the century's most important literary writers are some of the most powerful forces in the work of the century's most complex and controversial theorist. It will appeal to Joyceans of all persuasions, including anti-Derrideans, and to anyone with an interest in philosophy and contemporary theory. Alan Roughley is a research fellow at the University of York in the United Kingdom. He is the author of James Joyce and Critical Theory: An Introduction and Infernal Cinders: An Assemblage of Contemporary Writings, and the founding co-editor of Hypermedia Joyce, an international electronic journal of Joyce studies.
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Author: M. Keith Booker
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780313312434
Size: 64.99 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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James Joyce has emerged as one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century, and his writings continue to invite enormous amounts of scholarly attention. This volume offers a careful reading of Joyce within the context of recent developments in postcolonial theory. Booker shows that Joyce's work provides critiques of capitalism and colonialism that have much in common with the works of more recent African and Caribbean writers. However, Joyce remains a fundamentally European writer whose work differs substantially from that of most postcolonial writers from Africa and the Caribbean. In pursuing these readings, Booker also pays careful attention to the cultural politics of Joyce criticism, arguing that ideological considerations arising primarily from the Cold War have, until now, strongly distorted readings of Joyce from all political perspectives.
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Author: Jefferey Simons
Publisher: Universidad de Sevilla
ISBN: 9788447208043
Size: 79.49 MB
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Category : Books and reading
Languages : es
Pages : 295
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Veintitrés aportaciones de otros tantos especialistas en Joyce al Thirteenth annual meetings organizado por la Spanish James Joyce Society en Huelva en abril de 2002. Se abordan temas tan diversos como la recepción de Joyce y su obra en la prensa española, datos biográficos del escritor o posibles paralelismos entre Joyce y escritores autóctonos como Blasco Ibáñez, Juan Ramón o Torrente Ballester.
