Joyce in context / edited by Vincent J. Cheng and Timothy Martin.
"This challenging collection of essays by an international group of scholars aims, through the critical concept of "context," to put the work of James Joyce in its "place." The four sections explore a range of contexts, offering significant perspectives - historical, theoret...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[1992]
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| Summary: | "This challenging collection of essays by an international group of scholars aims, through the critical concept of "context," to put the work of James Joyce in its "place." The four sections explore a range of contexts, offering significant perspectives - historical, theoretical, feminist, cultural, and linguistic - on Joyce's writing. Essays on the modernist context place Joyce alongside contemporaries like Woolf, Ford, and Freud, reevaluating accepted notions of literary relationship and ideology. The context of the "other" is invoked in essays drawing on recent developments in feminist, poststructuralist, and psychoanalytic literary theory, and taking Joyce's work as a site for provocative investigations into the nature of sexual, national, ethnic, and cultural marginality. Next, original rereadings of Joyce's relationship to particular writers, critics, and cultural traditions draw him into proximity with Homer, Lacan, the comic strip, and Irish popular literature. Finally, in essays that examine aspects and evolutions of his distinctive style, Joyce is considered within the parameters of his own oeuvre." --Book Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Papers presented at the 1989 James Joyce Conference held in Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521413583 9780521413589 |