Forms of Materiality in James Joyce's Fiction / Alberto Tondello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tondello, Alberto.

Contributor:

Alberto Tondello, unknown.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Joyce, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026]

Summary:

Explores the depiction and treatment of inanimate matter in James Joyce's oeuvreReconsiders the role of material entities within Joyce's modernist literary practicesAdopts an interdisciplinary approach with close readings of Joyce's oeuvre informed by contemporary critical theoriesPositions Joyce's works at the intersection between the material and the linguistic turns as it attends to the working of language in its materiality and the impact of material entities in cognitive and aesthetic processesForms of Materiality in James Joyce's Fiction offers a fundamental reappraisal of material entities in James Joyce's works from a new materialist and ecocritical perspective. It argues that material entities - parsed under the categories of symbols, banal objects, waste and the substance of art - are essential in Joyce's articulation of aesthetic ideas, theories of perception and practices of representation. Alberto Tondello claims that Joyce's objects are particularly well placed to highlight collaborations and dissonances between human and nonhuman entities, and to link the material nature of objects with the abstraction of aesthetic concepts and philosophical ideas. With its interdisciplinary approach, Forms of Materiality recognises the complexities of the material world and the vibrancy of human perception as depicted in Joyce's works, thus offering novel readings and original approaches to his oeuvre.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Objects of Modernism

1. Epiphanic Objects: The Theory of Epiphany Between Triviality and Transcendence

2. Textual Objects: Material Language and Cognition in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

3. Queer Objects: Dubliners and Queer Phenomenology

4. Lively Objects: Relational Ontologies in Ulysses

5. Malleable Objects: The Co-responses of Finnegans Wake

Conclusion: A Comb with Thick Teeth

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-3995-4742-9

9781399547420

OCLC:

1564698136