John Brannigan

RE: Joyce

Text. Culture. Politics
Herausgegeben:Brannigan, J.; Wolfreys, Julian; Ward, Geoff

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Produktbeschreibung

Re: Joyce offers readers of James Joyce a significant collection of new essays from an international array of prominent and emerging Joyce scholars from around the world. Combining a wide range of theoretical approaches, this collection intervenes with current debates about Joyce's work and the place of Joyce in the academy, while addressing all principal areas of Joycean scholarship. In addition to this, the volume raises issues relevant to the study of Joyce in the context of modernism. Grouped thematically, the essays which comprise Re: Joyce offer all students of Joyce an exciting range of in-depth encounters with the pre-eminent writer of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-68382-8
• 1998
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9780333683828
• ISBN-10: 033368382X
• Artikelnr.: 43603663

Autorenporträt

Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and has written many course texts for Literature students, notably The English Literature Companion.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on the Contributors - List of Abbreviations - Foreword and Acknowledgements; J.Brannigan, G.Ward & J.Wolfreys - PART 1: JOYCE AND MODERNIST CONTEXTS - Joyce before the Law: Mimicry and Exclusion; J.Nash - Sound over Sight: James Joyce and Gertrude Stein in transition; C.Monk - PART 2: JOYCE, THE NATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -Joyce's Northern Ireland; T.C.Hofheinz - 'The girl, or woman, or whatever she was...': Explorations of Femininity and Nationalism in Joyce; M.Haslett - PART 3: SUBVERSIONS IN EARLY TEXTS - Stephen Hero: Laughing in - and at - the Institution; J.Wolfreys - Military Occupation in 'The Dead'; R.Mengham - 'Bodily Weakness' and the 'Free Boy': Physicality as Subversive Agent in A Portrait; C.Webb - PART 4: RE: CONSIDERING RHETORIC - 'Just you try it on': Style and Maternity in 'Oxen of the Sun'; L.McDowell - A Slice of Life for Mr Germ's Choice; J-M.Rabate - Throwaway: Joyce's Heroic Inutility; G.Ward - PART 5: 'HOW GOOD YOU ARE IN EXPLOSITION!': FINNEGANS WAKE - Falling Asleep in the Wake; J.Lane - Water and Women in Finnegans Wake; G.Banham - PART 6: RE: CONTEXTUALISATIONS - Joyce will Attend: The Joyce Tour of Postwar Literature; J.Brannigan - Blue Notes: From Joyce to Jarman; C.Herr - Of Canons, Colonies and Critics: The Ethics and Politics of Postcolonial Joyce Studies; V.J.Cheng - Purloined Joyce; C.van Boheemen-Saaf - Revisiting Poststructuralist Joyce; M.Currie - Works Cited - Index