Joyce's Revenge

History, Politics, and Aesthetics in Ulysses
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-928203-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

The Ireland of Ulysses was still a part of Britain. This book is the first comprehensive, historical study of Joyce's great novel in the context of Anglo-Irish political and cultural relations in the period 1880-1920. The first forty years of Joyce's life also witnessed the emergence of what historians now call English cultural nationalism. This formation was perceptible in a wide range of different discourses. Ulysses engages with many of them. In doing so, it resists, transforms, and works to transcend the effects of British rule in Ireland. The novel was written in the years leading up to Irish independence. It is powered by both a will to freedom and a will to justice. But the two do not always coincide, and Joyce does not place his art in the service of any existing political cause. His struggle for independence has its own distinctive mode. The result is a unique work of liberation - and revenge.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of Joyce, Ulysses, modernism, twentieth-century Irish literature and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Patiens Ingemiscit: Stephen Dedalus, Ireland, and History

- 2: Only A Foreigner Would Do: Leopold Bloom, Ireland, and Jews

- 3: Gentle Will is Being Roughly Handled: 'Scylla and Charybdis'

- 4: A Look Around: 'Wandering Rocks'

- 5: History, All That: 'Sirens', 'Cyclops'

- 6: Waking Up in Ireland: 'Nausicaa'

- 7: An Irish Bull in an English Chinashop: 'Oxen of the Sun'

- 8: Strangers in My House, Bad Manners to Them!: 'Circe'

- 9: Mingle Mangle or Gallimaufry: 'Eumaeus'

- 10: An Aberration of the Light of Reason: 'Ithaca'

- 11: The End of All Resistance: 'Penenlope'

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Gibson is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London.