Derek Attridge, Attridge Derek

Joyce Effects

On Language, Theory, and History

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Produktbeschreibung

Joyce Effects is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce. Joyce's books, Derek Attridge argues, go off like fireworks, and one of this book's aims is to enhance the reader's enjoyment of these special effects. He also examines another sort of effect: the way Joyce's writing challenges and transforms our understanding of language, literature, and history. Attridge's exploration of these transforming effects represents fifteen years of close engagement with Joyce, and reflects the changing course of Joyce criticism during this period. Each of Joyce's four major books is addressed in depth, while several shorter chapters take up particular theoretical topics such as character, chance and coincidence, historical writing and narrative as they are staged and scrutinized in Joyce's writing. Through lively and accessible discussion, this book advances a mode of reading open to both the pleasures and the surprises of the literary work.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction: on being a Joycean; 2. Deconstructive criticism of Joyce; 3. Popular Joyce?; 4. Touching 'Clay': Reference and reality in Dubliners; 5. Joyce and the ideology of character; 6. 'Suck was a queer word': Language, sex, and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 7. Joyce, Jameson, and the text of history; 8. Wakean history: not yet; 9. Molly's flow: the writing of 'Penelope' and the question of women's language; 10. The postmodernity of Joyce: chance, coincidence, and the reader; 11. Countlessness of live-stories: narrativity in Finnegan's Wake; 12. Finnegans awake, or the dream of interpretation; 13. The Wake's confounded language; 14. Envoi; Judging Joyce.

Derek Attridge's collected essays on James Joyce represent fifteen years of close engagement with the writer and reflects the changing course of Joyce criticism during this period. Attridge examines the way Joyce's writing transforms our understanding of language, literature and history and offers in-depth analysis of Joyce's four major books.

This is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780521661126
• ISBN-10: 0521661129
• Artikelnr.: 21964348

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: on being a Joycean
2. Deconstructive criticism of Joyce
3. Popular Joyce?
4. Touching 'Clay': Reference and reality in Dubliners
5. Joyce and the ideology of character
6. 'Suck was a queer word': Language, sex, and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
7. Joyce, Jameson, and the text of history
8. Wakean history: not yet
9. Molly's flow: the writing of 'Penelope' and the question of women's language
10. The postmodernity of Joyce: chance, coincidence, and the reader
11. Countlessness of live-stories: narrativity in Finnegan's Wake
12. Finnegans awake, or the dream of interpretation
13. The Wake's confounded language
14. Envoi
Judging Joyce.