Joyce Through Lacan and Zizek - Explorations

Zusatztext "[A] hugely enjoyable book...The expanding universe of Zizekian interpretation opens up to the judicious critic who! armed with Brivic's great knowledge of all things Joycean! can re-launch the sinthome! now freed from its cryptic vault and able to address many aspects of Joycean experience." - The James Joyce Quarterly Informationen zum Autor SHELLY BRIVIC is Professor of English, Temple University, USA. Klappentext Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and ¿i¿ek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform. Zusammenfassung Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Exploring Freedom Through Language PART I: THE REVOLUTIONARY PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST Stephen Dedalus Gets Changed Freedom Through Figuration in A Portrait Entwined Genders in A Portrait Žižek, Fantasy, and Truth PART II: ULYSSES OFF COURSE Let's Get Lost: Exploration in Homer and Joyce Structure as Discovery in Ulysses Ulysses' "Circe": Dealing in Shame Part III: FINNEGANS WAKE AS THE WORLD Reality as Fetish: The Crime In Finnegans Wake The Africanist Dimension of Finnegans Wake The Rising Sun: Asia in Finnegans Wake Conclusion: Exploration and Comedy Works

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Exploring Freedom Through Language PART I: THE REVOLUTIONARY PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST Stephen Dedalus Gets Changed Freedom Through Figuration in A Portrait Entwined Genders in A Portrait Zizek, Fantasy, and Truth PART II: ULYSSES OFF COURSE Let's Get Lost: Exploration in Homer and Joyce Structure as Discovery in Ulysses Ulysses' "Circe": Dealing in Shame Part III: FINNEGANS WAKE AS THE WORLD Reality as Fetish: The Crime In Finnegans Wake The Africanist Dimension of Finnegans Wake The Rising Sun: Asia in Finnegans Wake Conclusion: Exploration and Comedy Works

Bericht

"[A] hugely enjoyable book...The expanding universe of Zizekian interpretation opens up to the judicious critic who, armed with Brivic's great knowledge of all things Joycean, can re-launch the sinthome, now freed from its cryptic vault and able to address many aspects of Joycean experience." - The James Joyce Quarterly

Produktdetails

• Autoren: S Brivic, S. Brivic, Shelly Brivic
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349371648
• ISBN: 978-1-349-37164-8
• Seiten: 282
• Serien: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature; New Directions in Irish and Ir; New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen; B, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics, Psycholinguistics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Fiction and Related items