Joyce: The Return of the Repressed

Published by Cornell University Press 1993

Joyce

The Return of the Repressed

Edited by: Susan Stanford Friedman
Funded by: National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722912

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About this book

Did James Joyce, that icon of modernity, spearhead the dismantling of the Cartesian subject? Or was he a supreme example of a modern man forever divided and never fully known to himself? This volume reads the dialogue of contradictory cultural voices in Joyce’s works—revolutionary and reactionary, critical and subject to critique, marginal and central. It includes ten essays that identify repressed elements in Joyce’s writings and examine how psychic and cultural repressions persistently surface in his texts. Contributors include Joseph A. Boone, Marilyn L. Brownstein, Jay Clayton, Laura Doyle, Susan Stanford Friedman, Christine Froula, Ellen Carol Jones, Alberto Moreirias, Richard Pearce, and Robert Spoo.

Author / Editor information

Susan Stanford Friedman is Hilldale Professor and Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Planetary Modernism: Provocations on Modernity Across Time, Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter (winner of the Perkins Prize for Best Book in Narrative Studies), Penelope’s Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.’s Fiction, and Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D.

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Kimberly J. Devlin:

The collected essays in Joyce: The Return of the Repressed, Susan Stanford Friedman tells us in her introduction, explore the various ways that Joyce’s work can be read as textual scenes of ‘repression, disguised expression, and fragmentary return.’ In the course of tracing the forms of these ongoing processes throughout the Joycean canon, the contributors cover a range of diverse topics, including the representations of the artist, Joyce’s Irishness as it relates to discourses of race and racialism, subjectivity and desire, and the figurations of the maternal. The essays are united by a shared interest in psychoanalytic and/or poststructuralist arguments about the intriguing dynamics and variable relationships between interacting texts.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations for Texts by James Joyce Open Access Download PDF	xi
Introduction. Susan Stanford Friedman Open Access Download PDF	1
PART I. Making the Artist of Modernity: Stephen Hero, Portrait, Ulysses Open Access Download PDF	19
PART II. Repression and the Return of Cultural History: Dubliners and Portrait Open Access Download PDF	87
PART III. Narratives of Gender, Race, and Sex: Ulysses Open Access Download PDF	147
PART IV. Incest, Narcissism, and the Scene of Writing : Ulysses and Finnegans Wake Open Access Download PDF	223
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	305
Index Open Access Download PDF	309

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 330
Keywords: Literary Studies; Europe

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Published: March 15, 2018
ISBN: 9781501722912