The Varieties of Joycean Experience

The Varieties of Joycean Experience
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Publisher : Anthem Press
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 9781785274602
ISBN-13 : 1785274600
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Synopsis The Varieties of Joycean Experience by : Tim Conley

The Varieties of Joycean Experience is a collection of ten essays that display the wide range and diversity of perspectives and critical approaches that can be drawn upon to enrich our readings of James Joyce’s works. With special attention to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, these essays explore such problems as the difficulties these books pose to categories and summaries and our understanding of Joyce’s composition methods. The book explores Joyce’s ambiguities around death, scatology, and the weather to propose new understandings of these phenomena as key ways into Joyce’s works. The book concludes with an examination of the tricky problem: what makes an interpretation untenable, and why do Joyce’s works inspire far-fetched and even crackpot readings?

The Varieties of Joycean Experience

The Varieties of Joycean Experience
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ISBN-10 : 183999472X
ISBN-13 : 9781839994722
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Synopsis The Varieties of Joycean Experience by : Tim Conley

A collection of essays on Joyce's work stressing variations of approach. Forays into and across Joyce's oeuvre would draw upon a number of new and recent modes of criticism, including textual genetics, cognitive studies, and ecocriticism.

Joyce without Borders

Joyce without Borders
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Publisher : University Press of Florida
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9780813070209
ISBN-13 : 0813070201
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Synopsis Joyce without Borders by : James Ramey

This book addresses James Joyce’s borderlessness and the ways his work crosses or unsettles boundaries of all kinds. The essays in this volume position borderlessness as a major key to understanding Joycean poiesis, opening new doors and new engagements with his work. Contributors begin by exploring the circulation of Joyce’s writing in Latin America via a transcontinental network of writers and translators, including José Lezama Lima, José Salas Subirat, Leopoldo Marechal, Edmundo Desnoës, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Augusto Monterroso. Essays then consider Joyce through the lens of the sciences, presenting theoretical interventions on posthumanist parasitology in Ulysses; on Giordano Bruno’s coincidence of opposites in Finnegans Wake; and on algorithmic agency in the Wake. Cutting-edge cognitive narratology is applied to the “Penelope” episode. Next, the volume features innovative essays on Joyce in relation to early animated film and comics, engaging with animated film in the “Circe” episode, Joyce’s points of contact with George Herriman’s cartoon strip Krazy Kat, and structural affinities between open-world gaming and Finnegans Wake. The final essays focus on abiding human concerns, offering new research on Joyce’s creative use of “spicy books”; a Lacanian consideration of “The Dead” alongside Katherine Mansfield’s “The Stranger” and Haruki Murakami’s “Kino”; and a meditation on Joyce’s uncertainties about the boundary between life and death. For Joyce, borders are problems—but ones that provided precious fodder for his art. And as this volume demonstrates, they encourage brilliant reflections on his work, from new scholars to leading luminaries in the field. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles

Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats

Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9781137434777
ISBN-13 : 1137434775
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Synopsis Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats by : T. Balinisteanu

This monograph is based on archival research and close readings of James Joyce's and W. B. Yeats's poetics and political aesthetics. Georges Sorel's theory of social myth is used as a starting point for exploring the ways in which the experience of art can be seen as a form of religious experience.

Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats

Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9781137291585
ISBN-13 : 1137291583
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Synopsis Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats by : T. Balinisteanu

How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth.

James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 : 9780199726974
ISBN-13 : 0199726973
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Synopsis James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by : Mark A. Wollaeger

This casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to this landmark in modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first-time readers, teachers, and advanced scholars gain new insight into Joyce's semi-autobiographical story of an Irish boy's slow and difficult discovery of his artistic vocation. Mark Wollaeger's introduction provides an overview of the composition and early reception of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as well as a survey of some of the recurrent issues debated by literary critics. Essays by Hugh Kenner and Patrick Parrinder offer both indispensable overviews of the entire novel-its themes, structure, and idiom-and close attention to specific interpretive cruxes. Other essays include classic responses by Wayne Booth, Fritz Senn, Michael Levenson, Hélène Cixous, and a newly revised and expanded version of Maud Ellmann's groundbreaking "Polytropic Man." Together the essays bring into focus the wide range of questions that have kept A Portrait fresh for the new millennium.

Reading James Joyce

Reading James Joyce
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9781000839111
ISBN-13 : 1000839117
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Synopsis Reading James Joyce by : A. Nicholas Fargnoli

Reading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce’s writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce’s works and the background from which they emerged. Meticulously organized, this text situates readers within the world of Joyce including biographical exploration, discussion of Joyce’s innovations and prominent works such as Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake, surveys of significant critical approaches to Joyce’s writings, and examples of alternative readings and contemporary responses. Each chapter will provide interpretive approaches to contemporary literary theories and key issues, including end-of-chapter strategies and extended readings for further engagement. This book also includes shorter assessments of Joyce’s lesser-known works—critical writings, drama, poetry, letters, epiphanies, and personal recollections—to contextualize the creative and social environments from which his most notable publications arose. This uniquely comprehensive guide to Joyce will be an invaluable and comprehensive resource for readers exploring the influential world of Joyce studies.

Marginal Modernity:The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce

Marginal Modernity:The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780823245321
ISBN-13 : 0823245322
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Synopsis Marginal Modernity:The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce by : Leonard Lisi

Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of European modernism today: the aesthetics of autonomy, associated with the self-sufficient work of art, and the aesthetics of fragmentation, practiced by the avant-gardes. In this revisionary study, Leonardo Lisi argues that these models rest on assumptions about the nature of truth and existence that cannot be treated as exhaustive of modern experience. Lisi traces an alternative aesthetics of dependency that provides a different formal structure, philosophical foundation, and historical condition for modernist texts. Taking Europe's Scandinavian periphery as his point of departure, Lisi examines how Kierkegaard and Ibsen imagined a response to the changing conditions of modernity different from those at the European core, one that subsequently influenced James, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, and Joyce. Combining close readings with a broader revision of the nature and genealogy of modernism, Marginal Modernity challenges what we understand by modernist aesthetics, their origins, and their implications for how we conceive our relation to the modern world.

James Joyce's 'Work in Progress'

James Joyce's 'Work in Progress'
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9781317111559
ISBN-13 : 1317111559
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Synopsis James Joyce's 'Work in Progress' by : Dirk Van Hulle

The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the text of Finnegans Wake. And while they are undeniably integrated very skillfully, they also function separately. In this publication history, Dirk Van Hulle examines the interaction between the private composition process and the public life of Joyce's 'Work in Progress', from the creation of the separate sections through their publication in periodicals and as separately published sections. Van Hulle highlights the beautifully crafted editions published by fine arts presses and Joyce's encouragement of his daughter's creative talents, even as his own creative process was slowing down in the 1930s. All of these pre-book publications were "alive" in both bibliographic and textual terms, as Joyce continually changed the texts in order to prepare the book publication of Finnegans Wake. Van Hulle's book offers a fresh perspective on these texts, showing that they are not just preparatory versions of Finnegans Wake but a 'Work in Progress' in their own right.

The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 409
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ISBN-10 : 9781107494947
ISBN-13 : 110749494X
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Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce by : Derek Attridge

This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.