The poetry of James Joyce reconsidered / edited by Marc C. Conner ; foreword by Sebastian D. G. Knowles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conner, Marc C., 1965-

Series:

Florida James Joyce series

The Florida James Joyce series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Joyce, James.

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xii, 233 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2012]

Summary:

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 eight contributors to The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered convincingly 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered / Marc C. Conner Conner, Marc C. 1

2 Reading Joyce s Poetry against the Rest of the Canon / Michael Patrick Gillespie Gillespie, Michael Patrick 33

3 The Unconsortable Joyce: Chamber Music / Matthew Campbell Campbell, Matthew 51

4 Verse after Verlaine, Rime after Rimbaud: Joyce and the "poisondart" of Chamber Music / Marie-Dominique Garnier Garnier, Marie-Dominique 78

5 "That high unconsortable one": Chamber Music and "A Painful Case" / Cóilín Owens Owens, Cóilín 105

6 "After Music": Chamber Music, Song, and the Blank Page / Adrian Paterson Paterson, Adrian 117

7 Joyce's Poetics of Knowledge / Marc C. Conner Conner, Marc C. 143

8 Orpheus Rebound: The Voice of Lament in Joyce's Poetic Consciousness / A. Nicholas Fargnoli Fargnoli, A. Nicholas 170

9 Bleeding from the "Torn Bough": Challenging Nature in James Joyce s Pomes Penyeach / Jefferson Holdridge Holdridge, Jefferson 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813039763

0813039762

OCLC:

748330851