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Joyce effects : on language, theory, and history / Derek Attridge.
Van Pelt Library PR6019.O9 Z525647 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attridge, Derek.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Joyce, James.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
- Literature and history--Ireland--History--20th century.
- Literature and history.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Ireland.
- History.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Language.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 208 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- This is a series of connected essays by one of today??'s leading commentators on James Joyce.
- Contents:
- 1 Deconstructive criticism of Joyce 22
- 2 Popular Joyce? 30
- 3 Touching 'Clay': reference and reality in Dubliners 35
- A soft wet substance 35
- A woman of no importance 39
- On referring 45
- Maria victrix 49
- 4 Joyce and the ideology of character 52
- 5 'Suck was a queer word': language, sex, and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 59
- Sex and the schoolboy 60
- The remainder of language and the power of literature 65
- The artist as a youngish man 74
- 6 Joyce, Jameson, and the text of history 78
- 7 Wakean history: not yet 86
- 8 Molly's flow: the writing of 'Penelope' and the question of women's language 93
- Stopping the flow 93
- A female language? 106
- Overflow 111
- 9 The postmodernity of Joyce: chance, coincidence, and the reader 117
- 10 Countlessness of livestories: narrativity in Finnegans Wake 126
- 11 Finnegans awake, or the dream of interpretation 133
- First proposition 134
- Second proposition 141
- Third proposition 148
- 12 The Wake's confounded language 156
- 13 Envoi: judging Joyce 163
- A commitment to Joyce 163
- An industry without limits 168
- A Joyce come to judgment 171
- An excess of technique 174
- A future for Ulysses? 179.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521661129
- OCLC:
- 41211646
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