Reading Joyce politically /
Reading Joyce politically /:

"In the first book-length study of a "Marxist" Joyce, Trevor Williams takes as his starting point Joyce's assertion that Dublin was a "paralysed city." He identifies those power structures within its civil society and private relationships - so clearly drawn by Joyce in...

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1. Verfasser: Williams, Trevor L.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1997.
Schriftenreihe:Florida James Joyce series.
Schlagworte:
Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Political and social views.
Joyce, James, > 1882-1941
1900-1999
Political fiction, English > Irish authors > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > Ireland > History > 20th century.
Politique-fiction anglaise > Auteurs irlandais > Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature > Irlande > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Political and social views
Political fiction, English > Irish authors
Politics and literature
English Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
Ireland
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Zusammenfassung:"In the first book-length study of a "Marxist" Joyce, Trevor Williams takes as his starting point Joyce's assertion that Dublin was a "paralysed city." He identifies those power structures within its civil society and private relationships - so clearly drawn by Joyce in Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses - that lie at the heart of that paralysis. More importantly, however, Williams shows how in Joyce the paralysis is always provisional, and explores the ways in which Joyce's characters do indeed demonstrate means of resistance to the British state, to class distinctions, to clerical hegemony, and to power imbalances in familial and sexual relationships."--BOOK JACKET. "In the process, Williams reviews the early criticism leveled against Joyce by the left, in particular by the First Congress of Soviet Writers in 1934. He also engages contemporary Joyce critics, including Fredric Jameson, Franco Moretti, and Terry Eagleton, many of whom have attempted to redress the leftist attacks on Joyce and to demonstrate his relevance to a postcolonial critical approach."--BOOK JACKET. "Throughout, Williams asserts the constant need to make literature relevant. In part, this book was inspired by his students, who in 1991, at the outset of the Gulf War, demanded to know how they could justify reading Joyce when, simultaneously, people were being killed. Williams's answer, formulated in the first chapter, is to argue that reading Joyce, who was keenly aware of the impact of unequal power relations, is not only justifiable but relevant, legitimate, and necessary."--BOOK JACKET. "Unusually free of the dogmatism and economism so frequently associated with Marxist literary criticism, Williams's reading of Joyce draws from the "humanist" tradition of Marxism and from contemporary feminist thinking in what is ultimately a blend of provocative theory and close textual reading. It will be of interest to Joyceans, literary theorists, and anyone who still believes that to read Joyce is not only justifiable but relevant, legitimate, and necessary."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 229 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.
ISBN:0813023491
9780813023496

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