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Joyce/Foucault: Sexual Confessions

By Wolfgang Streit

Book information

Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0-472-11000-4, 978-0-472-11000-1, 978-0-472-02465-0, 0472024655
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
726 kB (743866 bytes)
Pages
229\240
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Sheds new light on James Joyce's use of sexual motifs as cultural raw material for Ulysses and other works Joyce/Foucault: Sexual Confessions examines instances of sexual confession in works of James Joyce, with a special emphasis on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. Using Michel Foucault's historical analysis of Western sexuality as its theoretical underpinning, the book foregrounds the role of the Jesuit order in the spread of a confessional force, and finds this influence inscribed into Joyce's major texts. Wolfgang Streit goes on to argue that the tension between the texts' erotic passages and Joyce's criticism of even his own sexual writing energizes Joyce's narratives-and enables Joyce to develop the radical skepticism of power revealed in his work.

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