The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

ISBN-13: 9780521837101 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 314 str.

Derek Attridge

Opis

Including several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, this Companion focuses on the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. The second edition features essays by an international team of leading scholars geared to provoking thought and discussion. Supplementary reading lists and an extended bibliography will offer readers the necessary tools for additional informed exploration of Joyce. First Edition Hb (1990): 0-521-33014-9 First Edition Pb (1990): 0-521-37673-4

Recenzje

'These essays offer introductions to numerous ways of locating Joyce in the wider world of theory and ideas, and are useful springboards back into the works themselves … reading adding another layer to our understanding of the man and the work.' The Irish Times

Spis treści

Preface; Contributors; Chronology of Joyce's life; 1. Reading Joyce Derek Attridge; 2. Joyce the Irishman Seamus Deane; 3. Joyce the Parisian Jean-Michel Rabaté; 4. Joyce the Modernist Christopher Butler; 5. Dubliners Garry Leonard; 6. Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: transforming the nightmare of history John Paul Riquelme; 7. Ulysses Jennifer Levine; 8. Finnegans Wake Margot Norris; 9. Joyce's shorter works Vicki Mahaffey; 10. Joyce and feminism Jeri Johnson; 11. Joyce and sexuality Joseph Valente; 12. Joyce and consumer culture Jennifer Wicke; 13. Joyce, colonialism and nationalism Marjorie Howes; Further reading; Index.