James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography, and 'The Jew' in Modernist Europe

ISBN-13: 9780521636209 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 324 str.

Neil R. Davison; Anthony Julius

Opis

Representations of "the Jew" have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies. Neil Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious, and political discourse about "the Jew" forms a unifying component of his career. He offers new biographical material, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses to show how Joyce confronts the controversy of "race," the psychology of internalized stereotype, and the contradictions of fin-de-siecle anti-Semitism.

Recenzje

'[A] valuable and always interesting volume … Davison's scholarship is impressive.' Irish Studies Review

Spis treści

Foreword Anthony Julius; Introduction; 1. Silence: family values; 2. Silence: Jesuit years: Clongowes and Belvedere; 3. Silence: university years: the Church, Dreyfus, and aesthetics; 4. Exile: excursion to the Continent, bitter return; 5. Cunning and exile: Greeks and Jews; 6. Cunning: Jews and the Continent: texts and subtexts; 7. Cunning: the miracle of Lazarus times two: Joyce and Italo Svevo; 8. Ulysses; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.