Ulysses Quotīdiānus : James Joyce's inverse histories of the everyday / Jibu Mathew George.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

George, Jibu Mathew, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.

Joyce, James.

Life in literature.

Ulysses (Joyce, James).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 338 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

This book presents a multi-pronged inverse historical analysis of Joyce's high-modernist magnum opus Ulysses, foregrounding the historicity of its unapologetic subject matter - the quotidian. It argues that the everyday life depicted in Ulysses espouses alternative historical trajectories neglected by traditional historiographic paradigms, which largely deal with great personages and momentous events. The sphere of ordinary life is also where lasting changes must be accomplished if transformations are to happen at all in what gets written or accepted as a posteriori 'history'. Across eight elaborate chapters, the book reconstructs quotidian "micro-histories" surrounding work and income, material objects and practices, everyday relationships, body and health, ideologies and power, socio-psychological resources, and, in one of the many internal heterogenizations of the everyday, gender issues. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 "The Sluggish Matter of the Earth": James Joyce and the Quotidian 1

Chapter 2 Joycean "Dooleysprudence": Historicizing the Claims of Everyday Life 37

Chapter 3 The Sphere of Homo Economicus 77

Chapter 4 "Something Feeble in a Civilization": A Material History of the Everyday 114

Chapter 5 "The Common Tide of Other Lives": Mutuality of the Everyday 155

Chapter 6 "This Is My Body": Corporeality of the Everyday 192

Chapter 7 Resistance and Resourcefulness: A Productive Ambivalence 231

Chapter 8 Margins of the Marginal: Joyce's Women In/And Everyday Life 268.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781443887304

1443887307

OCLC:

944086307

Publisher Number:

99967054505