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De-familiarizing readings : essays from the Austin Joyce conference

By Joyce , James; Rossman , Charles; Joyce , James; Friedman , Alan W

Book information

Publisher
Rodopi
Year
2010
ISBN
9042032375, 978-90-420-3237-8, 978-90-420-3238-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1456428 bytes)
Series
European Joyce studies 18
Edition
2nd ed
Pages
103\108
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Unlike many recent Joyce studies, De-familiarizing Readings eschews the theoretical and ideological and instead plants itself on firmer ground. Its seven outstanding Joyce scholars share a love of the "stuff" of texts, contexts, and intertexts: data and dates, food and clothing, letters and journals, literary allusions, and other quotidian desiderata. Their inductive approaches - whether to Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses, or Finnegans Wake - are thoroughly researched, argued with meticulous, even nit-picking, precision, and offer the pleasurable reading experience of forensic analysis. And in the end they provide the satisfaction of reaching persuasive conclusions that seem both striking and inevitable

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