Ulysses

ISBN-13: 9780333546055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 223 str.

Rainer Emig

Opis

This collection of recent essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings. The essays are framed by an introduction that assesses particularity and universal schemes in Joyce's novel, including its role in modern literature.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction: Ulysses' Small Universes; R.Emig.- James Joyce: The Limits of Modernism and the Realms of the Literary Text; R.Lehan.- 'Proteus' and Prose: Paternity or Workmanship?; M.Murphy.- The Disappointed Bridge: Textual Hauntings in Ulysses; J.A.Weinstock.- Ulysses: City, Nation and Memory; A.Woodruff.- 'The Void Awaits Surely All Them That Weave the Wind': 'Penelope' and 'Sirens'; M.Stanier.- Wasted Words: The Body Language of Joyce's 'Nausicaa'; C.D.McLean.- Cribs in the Countinghouse: Plagiarism, Proliferation, and Labour in 'Oxen of the Sun'; M.Osteen.- 'Circe': Joyce's Argumentum ad Feminam; E.Plonowska Ziarek.- 'Circe' and the Uncanny, or Joyce from Freud to Marx; M.B.McDonald.- Molly Alone: Questioning Community and Closure in the 'Nostos'; E.Duffy.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

O autorze

RAINER EMIG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Regensburg. His main areas of research are nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, especially literary modernism, and critical and cultural theory.

Blurb

This collection of critical essays on James Joyce's modernist masterpiece presents an overview of the most recent critical positions and introduces a number of new voices to the lively area of Joyce scholarship. Together, the essays comprehensively address the entire text of Ulysses from the stances of structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender and postcolonial studies, and present many views that challenge established thinking on Joyce and modernist literature. Framed by an introduction that assesses particularity and universal schemes in Joyce's novel, this essential volume will provide stimulating critical support for students and teachers alike.