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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Editors De-familiarizing Readings -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE / Editors De-familiarizing Readings -- INTRODUCTION / ALAN W. FRIEDMAN and CHARLES ROSSMAN -- “GUTTAPERCHA THINGS”: CONTRACEPTION, DESIRE, AND MISCOMMUNICATION IN “THE DEAD” / TARA PRESCOTT -- JOYCE IN BLACKFACE: GOLOSHES, GOLLYWOGGS AND CHRISTY MINSTRELS IN “THE DEAD” / SUSAN J. ADAMS -- DATING STEPHEN’S DIARY: WHEN DOES A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST END? / DAVID G. WRIGHT -- IS BELLA COHEN JEWISH? WHAT’S IN A NAME? / AUSTIN BRIGGS -- STEPHEN DEDALUS’S ANTI-SEMITIC BALLAD: A SABOTAGED CLIMAX IN JOYCE’S ULYSSES / MARGOT NORRIS -- THE SHAKESPEAREAN DEMIURGE IN JOYCE’S FORGE / STEPHEN WHITTAKER -- PLAYING THE SQUARE CIRCLE: MUSICAL FORM AND POLYPHONY IN THE WAKE / ALAN SHOCKLEY -- CONTRIBUTORS / Editors De-familiarizing Readings.