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Beating the bounds : excess and restraint in Joyce's later works
Exploring the role of boundaries and limits in the writing of James Joyce
Beating the Bounds examines the role of boundaries and limits in James Joyce's later works, primarily Finnegans Wake but also Ulysses and other texts. Building on the ideas of philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Giordano Bruno, and scholar Fritz Senn, Roy Benjamin explains and reconciles Joyce's contrary tendencies to establish and transgress limits.
Benjamin begins by contrasting Joyce's exploration of the artificial impositions of ritual and political power with the writer's attention to natural boundaries of rivers and mountains. The next section considers sexual, spiritual, and interpersonal boundaries in the Wake. Benjamin then discusses how Joyce simultaneously affirms and undermines the limits of philosophy, geometry, and aesthetics. The final section covers Joyce's representation of the boundaries imposed in cosmogonic myths, the collision between the bounded medieval world and the boundless world of modern science, and the drive to escape from the boundaries of place.
In this detailed and original analysis, Benjamin demonstrates that in Joyce's writing, the tendency to disintegrate into chaos is countered by an urge to impose order. Benjamin's close readings put an abundance of subjects in conversation through the concept of limits, showing the Wake's relevance to many different fields of thought.
A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles
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The Ecology of Finnegans Wake
In this book-one of the first ecocritical explorations of Irish literature-Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent engagement with nature. Using genetic criticism to investigate Joyce's source texts, notebooks, and proofs, Lacivita shows how Joyce developed ecological themes in Finnegans Wake over successive drafts.
Making apparent a love of growing things and a lively connection with the natural world across his texts, Lacivita's approach reveals Joyce's keen attention to the Irish landscape, meteorology, urban planning, Dublin's ecology, the exploitation of nature, and fertility and reproduction. Alison Lacivita unearths a vital quality of Joyce's work that has largely gone undetected, decisively aligning ecocriticism with both modernism and Irish studies.
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The German Joyce
In August 1919, a production of James Joyce's Exiles was mounted at the Munich Schauspielhaus and quickly fell due to harsh criticism. The reception marked the beginning of a dynamic association between Joyce, German-language writers, and literary critics. It is this relationship that Robert Weninger analyzes inThe German Joyce.
Opening a new dimension of Joycean scholarship, this book provides the premier study of Joyce's impact on German-language literature and literary criticism in the twentieth century. The opening section follows Joyce's linear intrusion from the 1910s to the 1990s by focusing on such prime moments as the first German translation ofUlysses, Joyce's influence on the Marxist Expressionism debate, and the Nazi blacklisting of Joyce's work. Utilizing this historical reception as a narrative backdrop, Weninger then presents Joyce's horizontal diffusion into German culture.
Weninger succeeds in illustrating both German readers' great attraction to Joyce's work as well as Joyce's affinity with some of the great German masters, including Goethe and Rilke. He argues that just as Shakespeare was a model of linguistic exuberance for Germans in the eighteenth century, Joyce became the epitome of poetic inspiration in the twentieth.
This volume, through Weninger's critiques and repositions, simultaneously revisits the fraught relationship between influence and intertextuality in literary studies and reassesses their value as tools for contemporary comparative criticism today.
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Joyce without Borders
This book addresses James Joyce's borderlessness and the ways
his work crosses or unsettles boundaries of all kinds. The essays
in this volume position borderlessness as a major key to
understanding Joycean poiesis, opening new doors and new
engagements with his work.
Contributors begin by exploring the circulation of Joyce's
writing in Latin America via a transcontinental network of writers
and translators, including José Lezama Lima, José Salas Subirat,
Leopoldo Marechal, Edmundo Desnoës, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and
Augusto Monterroso. Essays then consider Joyce through the lens of
the sciences, presenting theoretical interventions on posthumanist
parasitology in Ulysses ; on Giordano Bruno's coincidence
of opposites in Finnegans Wake ; and on algorithmic agency
in the Wake . Cutting-edge cognitive narratology is applied
to the \"Penelope\" episode.
Next, the volume features innovative essays on Joyce in relation
to early animated film and comics, engaging with animated film in
the \"Circe\" episode, Joyce's points of contact with George
Herriman's cartoon strip Krazy Kat , and structural
affinities between open-world gaming and Finnegans Wake .
The final essays focus on abiding human concerns, offering new
research on Joyce's creative use of \"spicy books\"; a Lacanian
consideration of \"The Dead\" alongside Katherine Mansfield's \"The
Stranger\" and Haruki Murakami's \"Kino\"; and a meditation on Joyce's
uncertainties about the boundary between life and death.
For Joyce, borders are problems-but ones that provided precious
fodder for his art. And as this volume demonstrates, they encourage
brilliant reflections on his work, from new scholars to leading
luminaries in the field.
A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D.
G. Knowles
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Useless Joyce : textual functions, cultural appropriations
\"Tim Conley's Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical, are in fact polymorphous meditations on this question. Examinations of traditional textual functions such as quoting, editing, translating, and annotating texts are set against the ways in which texts may be assigned unexpected but thoroughly practical purposes. Conley's accessible and witty engagement with the material views the rise of explication and commentary on Joyce's work as an industry not unlike the rise of self-help publishing. We can therefore read Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as various kinds of guides and uncover new or forgotten \"uses\" for them. Useless Joyce invites new discussions about the assumptions at work behind our definitions of literature, interpretation, and use.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century
This collection shows the depth and range of James Joyce's relationship with key literary, intellectual and cultural issues that arose in the nineteenth century. Thirteen original essays explore several new themes in Joyce studies, connecting Joyce's writing to that of his predecessors, and linking Joyce's formal innovations to his reading of, and immersion in, nineteenth-century life. The volume begins by addressing Joyce's relationships with fictional forms in nineteenth-century and turn-of-the-century Ireland. Further sections explore the rise of new economies of consumption and Joyce's formal adaptations of major intellectual figures and issues. What emerges is a portrait of Joyce as he has not previously been seen, giving scholars and students of fin-de-siècle culture, literary modernism and English and Irish literature fresh insight into one of the most important writers of the past century.
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