New Alliances in Joyce Studies

New Alliances in Joyce Studies

Author: Bonnie Kime Scott

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780874133288

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Essays ... initially presented in less formal versions as independent papers ... at the James Joyce Conference, held in Philadelphia in June 1985--Introd.


Modernism and Nostalgia

Modernism and Nostalgia

Author: T. Clewell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-07-29

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1137326603

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This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new—the distinctly modern.


James Joyce and the Revolt of Love

James Joyce and the Revolt of Love

Author: J. Utell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-08-30

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0230111823

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This study examines the representation of marital and extramarital relations in James Joyce's texts, with reference to context and to Joyce's biography. Utell claims that Joyce uses these relations to imagine a different kind of love, one based in a radical acceptance and a rejection of a utilitarian and sexually repressive stance towards marriage.


James Joyce and German Theory

James Joyce and German Theory

Author: Barbara Laman

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780838640296

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James Joyce's aesthetic theories, as explicated by Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and in the Scylla and Charybdis chapter of Ulysses, have generally been assumed to be grounded in Aristotle and Aquinas. Indeed, Stephen mentions those thinkers especially in Portrait, at the same time as he rejects Romantic notions. This book investigates the extent to which Joyce's theories as well as his practice, beginning with his critical writings and Stephen Hero, are indebted to early German Romanticism. The allusions, affinities, and analogies, as well as differential relationships between the Joycean oeuvre and texts of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Schiegel, and Novalis are often palpable, sometimes tentative, but clearly present in most of his works, including Finnegans Wake.


The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered

The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered

Author: Marc C. Conner

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2012-04-29

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0813042232

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To many, James Joyce is simply the greatest novelist of the twentieth century. Scholars have pored over every minutia of his public and private life from utility bills to deeply personal letters in search of new insights into his life and work. Yet, for the most part, they have paid scant attention to the two volumes of poetry he published. The nine contributors to The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsideredconvincingly challenge the critical consensus that Joyce’s poetry is inferior to his prose. They reveal how his poems provide entries into Joyce's most personal and intimate thoughts and ideas. They also demonstrate that Joyce's poetic explorations--of the nature of knowledge, sexual intimacy, the changing quality of love, the relations between writing and music, and the religious dimensions of the human experience--were fundamental to his development as a writer of prose. This exciting new work is sure to spark new interest in Joyce's poetry, and will become an essential and indispensable resource for students and scholars of his life and work.


Party Pieces

Party Pieces

Author: Alan W. Friedman

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2007-10-29

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780815631231

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“Irishness” has often meant self-dramatization because Ireland is commonly represented, and has historically represented itself, as a nation of storytellers, musicians, and virtuoso performers. Like many of their characters, Joyce and Beckett were superb musicians, creators of performance, and they sought both to evoke and exhaust the resources and rhythms of language and performance. In this groundbreaking work, Alan Warren Friedman explores the rich historical and literary backgrounds of this distinctly Irish phenomenon. He then explains its cultural significance and discusses the major works of both authors, illustrating the diverse ways in which Ireland is enacted. Party Pieces offers a distinct contribution to the critical study of Joyce and Beckett. Unlike other books on the subject of social performance, it places two great modern Irish writers within social and metaphorical conventions that are specifically moored in their Irishness. In so doing the author shows how social performances not only impacted the works of Joyce and Beckett but also were central to their creative processes. Meticulously researched, convincingly argued, and clearly written, Party Pieces is an ideal reference for scholars of Joyce, Beckett, and Irish studies.


Joyce and the Perverse Ideal

Joyce and the Perverse Ideal

Author: David Cotter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1136711481

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Representations of masochism - both overt and oblique - permeate the work of James Joyce. While a number of critics have noted this, to date there has been no sustained and focused analysis of this trope in his writings. David Cotter argues that such an examination is key to understanding the meanings and messages of Joyce's work. Adding further dimensions to moral, political and aesthetic considerations in the novels and stories - particularly Ulysses - this book provides a comprehensive account of masochistic elements in James Joyce's work. Cotter draws upon psychoanalytic theory and social history to illustrate the subversive power of perversity in the literature of the modern period. This edition first Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Fragments of the Feminine Sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce

Fragments of the Feminine Sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce

Author: Ginette Verstraete

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1998-01-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1438422911

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This is the first book to extensively study Joyce's work in the context of Germanic Romantic literary theory. It illustrates how Joyce's modern and postmodern innovation of the novel finds its theoretical roots in Friedrich Schlegel's conception of the Romantic, fragmentary novel. Verstraete discusses the relevance of Schlegel's early Romanticism to the young Joyce's essays on symbolic-realistic drama and argues that what has traditionally been described as Joyce's personal appropriation of Hegel's dialectics can better be understood in terms of Schlegel's ironic approach to philosophy. She relates Schlegel's concepts of irony and of the fragment to his feminist critique of nineteenth-century bourgeois art, and of Kant's categories of the beautiful and the sublime. She argues that Schlegel's ironization of the sublime yields a rhetorical subversion of the opposition between male artist and female model, art and reality, as well as between the sublime and the beautiful. Verstraete illustrates this critical and political force of what she calls the "feminine sublime" at work in Schlegel's essays on Greek comedy and in his novel Lucinde. The book demonstrates how the Romantic (feminine) sublime, as the site where autonomous art generates its own critique, offers us the tools with which to interpret Joyce's postmodern innovations of Romantic art.


Bordering on the Body

Bordering on the Body

Author: Laura Doyle

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0195086554

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Argues that many major texts of 20th-century literature revolve around the concept of the mother figure. Examining novels of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism and drawing upon the history of eugenics and anthropology, this study shows how mother figures represent symbols of race and ethnicity.


The French Joyce

The French Joyce

Author: Geert Lernout

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780472081806

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A major contribution to James Joyce studies, as well as a historical review of the French intellectual climate since the 1960s