Joyce effects on language, theory, and history

Joyce effects on language, theory, and history / Derek Attridge.

Joyce Effects is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce. Joyce's books, Derek Attridge argues, go off like fireworks, and one of this book's aims is to enhance the reader's enjoyment of these special effects. He also examines another so...

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Main Author: Attridge, Derek
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Language.
Literature and history > Ireland > History > 20th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Deconstructive criticism of Joyce
  • Popular Joyce?
  • Touching 'Clay': reference and reality in Dubliners
  • Joyce and the ideology of character
  • 'Suck was a queer word': language, sex, and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • Joyce, Jameson, and the text of history
  • Wakean history: not yet
  • Molly's flow: the writing of 'Penelope' and the question of women's language
  • The postmodernity of Joyce: chance, coincidence, and the reader
  • Countlessness of livestories: narrativity in Finnegans Wake
  • Finnegans awake, or the dream of interpretation
  • The Wake's confounded language
  • Envoi: judging Joyce.

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