Who's afraid of James Joyce? / Karen R. Lawrence ; foreword by Sebastian D.G. Knowles, series editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawrence, Karen, 1949-

Series:

Florida James Joyce series.

The Florida James Joyce series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

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

Joyce, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The development of Joycean studies into a respected and very large subdiscipline of modernist studies can be traced to the work of several important scholars. Among those who did the most to document Joyce's work, Karen Lawrence can easily be considered one of that elite cadre. A retrospective of decades of work on Joyce, this collection includes published journal articles, book chapters, and selections from her best known work (all updated and revised), along with one new essay. Featuring engaging close readings of such Joyce works as Dubliners and Ulysses, it will be a

Contents:

The narrative norm

"Wandering rocks" and "sirens" : the breakdown of narrative

"Eumaeus" : the way of all language

"Ithaca" : the order of things

Joyce and feminism

Women building the foundation

"Eumaeus" redux

Legal fiction or pulp fiction in "Lestrygonians"

"Twenty pockets aren't enough for their lies" : pocketed objects as props of Bloom's masculinity in Ulysses

Bloom in circulation : who's he when he's not at home?

Close encounters

Joyce in transit

Reopening "A painful case" / Karen R. Lawrence and Paul K. Saint-Amour.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-233) and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-3861-8

0-8130-4322-0

OCLC:

811505313