Wandering and return in Finnegans wake : an integrative approach to Joyce's fictions / Kimberly J. Devlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Devlin, Kimberly J., 1957- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel in literature.

Return in literature.

Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Finnegans wake.

Joyce, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce's last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans Wake as an uncanny text, one that is both strange and familiar. In light of Freud's description of the uncanny as a haunting awareness of earlier, repressed phases of the self, Devlin finds the uncanniness of the Wake rooted in Joyce's rewritings of literary fictions from his earlier artistic periods. She demonstrates the notion of psychological return as she traces the obsessions, scenarios, and images from Joyce's "waking" fictions that resurface in his final dreamtext in uncanny forms, transformed yet discernible, often to uncover hidden, unconscious truths. Drawing on psychoanalytic arguments and recent feminist theory, Devlin maps intertextual connections that reveal many of Joyce's most deeply felt imaginative and intellectual concerns, such as the self in its decentered relationship to language, the elusive nature of human identity, the anxieties implicit in mortal selfhood, the male subject in its opposition to the female sexual "other." She suggests that the Wake records Joyce's implicit interest in the psychological counterpart to Vico's theory of historical repetition: Freud's theory of the insistent internal return of earlier narratives.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Textual Wandering and Return

CHAPTER 2. Textual Desire: Language and the Return of the Taboo

CHAPTER 3. "My Multiple Mes": The Search for the Self

CHATTER 4. "That Other World": The Journey toward Death

CHAPTER 5. "See Ourselves as Others See Us": The Role of the Other in Indeterminate Selfhood

CHAPTER 6. The Return of the Repressed: Male Visions and Re-visionings of the Female I/Eye

CHAPTER 7. "Returning Not the Same": ALP's Final Monologue in Finnegans Wake

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-195) and index.

ISBN:

9780691635996

0691635994

9780691607405

0691607400

9781400861743

1400861748

OCLC:

889253468