A companion to James Joyce / edited by Richard Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Richard, 1954-

Series:

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Joyce, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, c2011.

Summary:

A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. * Brings together 25 newly-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the field * Explores Joyce's distinctive cultural place in Irish, British and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere in the world * A comprehensive and timely Companion to current debates and possible areas of future development in Joyce studies * Offers new critical readings of several of Joyce's works, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Abbreviations and Editions Used""; ""1 Introduction: Re-readings, Relocations, and Receptions""; ""Re-reading Texts""; ""Joycean Geographies: Biographical Contexts and Global Relocations""; ""Critical and Creative Approaches, Receptions, and Responses""; ""Part I: Re-reading Texts""; ""2 Dubliners: Surprised by Chance""; ""3 Desire, Freedom, and Confessional Culture in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man""; ""Judging the Young Artist: Autobiography, Nationhood, Sexuality""

""A Tale of Confessions and Constraints""""Giving Lip Service to Confession: Desire, Heresy, Literature, Politics""; ""Confessional Turnings and the Snakes of Ireland""; ""The Thrill and the End of Confession""; ""Beyond the Horizon of Confessional Constraints""; ""4 Ulysses: The Epic of the Human Body""; ""Inner Organs""; ""Cloacal Obsessions""; ""Throwaway Economics""; ""Returns""; ""The Flesh Made Word""; ""5 Finnegans Wake: Novel and Anti-novel""; ""Duality and Criticism""; ""The "War on Language" as a Defense of "Active Nature"""; ""Knowledge and the Resilience of Nature""

"""Look at all the plotsch!" (FW 81 2)"""""All the charictures in the drame" (FW 302 32)""; ""Part II: Contexts and Locations""; ""6 European Joyce""; ""Joyce's View of His Own Mission""; ""Artistic Europe in Joyce's Work""; ""The View from Europe""; ""Master of Languages""; ""7 "In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis"? Joyce's Reception in Ireland, 1900-1940""; ""Placing Joyce in Histories of Irish Literature""; ""Reading Joyce before 1922""; ""Reading Joyce in the 1920s""; ""8 His città immediata: Joyce's Triestine Home from Home""

""9 James Joyce and German Literature, or Reflections on the Vagaries and Vacancies of Reception Studies""""Approaches to Reception and Influence""; ""Gustav Freytag as Influence""; ""The Potential Connection with Heinrich Böll""; ""Ostensible Non-connection with Rilke""; ""Conclusion""; ""10 Molly's Gibraltar: The Other Location in Joyce's Ulysses""; ""The Exegetical Tradition""; ""The Multi-ethnic Field""; """The B Marche Paris"""; ""11 Joyce and Postcolonial Theory: Analytic and Tropical Modes""; ""Analytic and Tropical Modes and the Language of Postcolonialism""

""Deconstruction, Bakhtin, and Postcolonial Appropriations""""Familiar and Unfamiliar Tropes: The Same Anew""; ""The Analytic and the Psychoanalytic: Bhabha and the Ghosts of History""; ""From Analytic Cleansing to Tropical Rebirth: Voicing Joyce""; ""12 "United States of Asia": James Joyce and Japan""; ""Introduction""; ""The Rise of the Empire of Japan in Ulysses""; ""The Early Reception of Joyce in Japan""; ""The Fall of the Empire of Japan in Finnegans Wake""; ""Conclusion""; ""13 Where Agni Araflammed and Shiva Slew: Joyce's Interface with India""; ""Joyce and India""

""India and Joyce""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 21, 2013).

ISBN:

9781444342932

1444342932

9781782685975

1782685979

9781405177535

1405177535

9781444342949

1444342940

OCLC:

905450335