James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism

ISBN-13: 9780521009584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 260 str.

Jean-Michel Rabate

Opis

In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of "egoism." This concept, Jean-Michel Rabate argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, "hospitality," a term Rabate understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to "the other." Rabate explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars of modernism.

Recenzje

'James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism, a work of extra ordinary breadth and perceptiveness, makes for fascinating reading. Rabaté's sophistication, his intellectual range, and his generous tolerance for different critical and theoretical approaches combine to produce a major contribution to the study of Joyce (and of modernism). Modernism/Modernity

Spis treści

Foreword; 1. Aprés le mot, le déluge: the ego as symptom; 2. The ego, the nation and degeneration; 3. Joyce the egoist; 4. The aesthetic paradoxes of egoism: from egoism to the theoretic; 5. Theory's slice of life; 6. The egoist and the king; 7. The conquest of Paris; 8. Joyce's transitional revolution; 9. Hospitality and sodomy; 10. Textual hospitality in the 'capital city'; 11. Joyce's late modernism and the birth of the genetic reader; 12. Stewardism, Parnellism and egotism.