De-familiarizing readings : essays from the Austin Joyce conference / / edited by Alan W. Friedman and Charles Rossman.

• Superior document: European Joyce studies ; 18
• TeilnehmendeR: Friedman, Alan W.; Rossman, Charles.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Language: English
• Series: European Joyce studies ; 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (108 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE /; INTRODUCTION /; “GUTTAPERCHA THINGS”: CONTRACEPTION, DESIRE, AND MISCOMMUNICATION IN “THE DEAD” /; JOYCE IN BLACKFACE: GOLOSHES, GOLLYWOGGS AND CHRISTY MINSTRELS IN “THE DEAD” /; DATING STEPHEN’S DIARY: WHEN DOES A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST END? /; IS BELLA COHEN JEWISH? WHAT’S IN A NAME? /; STEPHEN DEDALUS’S ANTI-SEMITIC BALLAD: A SABOTAGED CLIMAX IN JOYCE’S ULYSSES /; THE SHAKESPEAREAN DEMIURGE IN JOYCE’S FORGE /; PLAYING THE SQUARE CIRCLE: MUSICAL FORM AND POLYPHONY IN THE WAKE /; CONTRIBUTORS /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1282916963; 9786612916960; 9042032383
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alan W. Friedman and Charles Rossman.

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.