Synopses & Reviews
In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of "egoism". This concept, Jean-Michel Rabatand#233; argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, "hospitality", a term Rabatand#233; understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to "the other". Rabatand#233; explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars of modernism.
Review
"Rabate is at ease with all of Joyce's fiction, from Dubliners to Finnegans Wake, and he can walk down the paths of theory without becoming convoluted and fuzzy. His approaches to Joyce, in their general intellectual sweep and sensitivity, begin to rival those of Fritz Senn...Highly recommended for those interested in Joyce in particular and modern literature in general." CHOICE
Synopsis
In this book Jean-Michel Rabate approaches the Joycean canon through the concept of 'egoism'.
Synopsis
approaches the Joycean canon through the concept of 'egoism'.
Synopsis
In this book Jean-Michel Rabat approaches the Joycean canon through the concept of 'egoism". This concept, Rabat argues, runs throughout Joyce"s work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, 'hospitality". Rabat explores Joyce"s complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all Joyceans and scholars of modernism.
Table of Contents
Foreword; 1. Aprs le mot, le dluge: the ego as symptom; 2. The ego, the nation and degeneration; 3. Joyce the egoist; 4. The aesthetic paradoxes of egoism: from egoism to the theoretic; 5. Theory"s slice of life; 6. The egoist and the king; 7. The conquest of Paris; 8. Joyce"s transitional revolution; 9. Hospitality and sodomy; 10. Textual hospitality in the 'capital city"; 11. Joyce"s late modernism and the birth of the genetic reader; 12. Stewardism, Parnellism and egotism.