Joyce, "Penelope" and the body / edited by Richard Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Richard, 1954-

Series:

European Joyce studies ; 17.

European Joyce studies ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature.

Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses--Episode 18.

Joyce, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Joyce, “Penelope” and the Body is a collection of twelve essays about “Penelope”, the famous final episode of Joyce’s Ulysses in relation to contemporary literary, cultural, philosophical and psychoanalytical theories of the body. As such it offers an unusually close look at that episode itself and it also becomes the very first book on Joyce that takes the idea of the body as its announced central theme. The contributors represented here come from England, Ireland, Europe and North America and they include some of the best established critics of Joyce alongside newcomers to academic publication. The essays include an encouraging diversity of approaches but they have in common a marked intellectual ambition, a surprisingly fresh and innovative approach and above all a devoted fascination for Joyce’s text. Taken together they offer much new potential for the reading of Joyce and Modernism and a range of possibilities for understanding the body and its representation through language and in culture that have resonances across the cultural sphere.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Richard Brown

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / Richard Brown

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE / Richard Brown

INTRODUCTION / Richard Brown

JOYCE´S ANSWER TO PHILOSOPHY: WRITING THE DEMATERIALIZING OBJECT / CHRISTINE VAN BOHEEMEN-SAAF

THE BODY WRITING: JOYCE’S PEN / DEREK ATTRIDGE

MOLLY INSIDE AND OUTSIDE “PENELOPE” / VALÉRIE BÉNÉJAM

VERBAL OR VISUAL?: “PENELOPE” AND CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY / JOHN SMURTHWAITE

SPINNING WITH “PENELOPE” / FINN FORDHAM

“PENELOPE” WITHOUT THE BODY / MAUD ELLMANN

BODY WORDS / RICHARD BROWN

JACK THE RIPPER AND THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN: GYNAECOLOGY AND DOMESTIC MEDICINE IN “PENELOPE” / VIKE MARTINA PLOCK

“INDIFFERENT WEIB”: GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERETICAL MODE OF VISION IN “PENELOPE” / GARETH JOSEPH DOWNES

FROM THE CONFESSIONAL HOLE TO THE TECHNO-EROTIC: “PENELOPE” AND FINNEGANS WAKE / ANDREW NORRIS

Illustration / Richard Brown

BEYOND MASOCHISTIC RITUAL IN JOYCE AND DELEUZE: READING MOLLY AS NON-CORPOREAL BODY / JAMES DAVIES

THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY IN “PENELOPE” / PAUL O'HANRAHAN

CONTRIBUTORS / Richard Brown

INDEX / Richard Brown.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0255-9

1-4237-9154-1

OCLC:

714567253

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401202558 DOI