James Joyce and the politics of egoism / Jean-Michel Rabaté.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Political and social views.

Joyce, James.

Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Ethics.

Politics and literature--Ireland--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Difference (Psychology) in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.

Modernism (Literature).

Hospitality in literature.

Egoism in literature.

Self in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

James Joyce & the Politics of Egoism

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism, first published in 2001, a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of 'egoism'. This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, 'hospitality', a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to 'the other'. For Rabaté both concepts emerge from the fact that Joyce published crucial texts in the London based review The Egoist and later moved on to forge strong ties with the international Paris avant-garde. Rabaté examines the theoretical debates surrounding these connections, linking Joyce's engagement with Irish politics with the aesthetic aspects of his texts. Through egoism, he shows, Joyce defined a literary sensibility founded on negation; through hospitality, Joyce postulated the creation of a new, utopian readership. Rabaté explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all Joyceans and scholars of modernism.

Contents:

Après le mot, le déluge : the ego as symptom

The ego, the nation and degeneration

Joyce the egoist

The aesthetic paradoxes of egoism: from egoism to the theoretic

Theory's slice of life

The egoist and the king

The conquest of Paris

Joyce's transitional revolution

Hospitality and sodomy

Textual hospitality in the 'capital city'

Joyce's late modernism and the birth of the genetic reader

Stewardism, Parnellism and egotism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12368-2

0-511-48527-1

1-280-16225-2

0-511-04395-3

0-511-15354-6

0-511-11965-8

0-521-80425-6

0-511-32515-0

OCLC:

475916644