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Through a close examination of Joyce’s joyous, musical prose, Vicki Mahaffey shows how language provides us with a means of revitalizing daily experience and social interactions across a huge, diverse, everchanging world. A book for everyone who loves words,
The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence.
List of contents
Introduction: On Living and Reading
1 On Beds
2 On Dirty Sheets
3 On Salmon
4 On Writing by Hand
5 On Fat
6 On Adultery and Virginity
7 On Love
8 On Religion (as Rereading)
9 On Glass
10 On Letters
11 On Closing and Opening
Epilogue: The Everyday
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
VICKI MAHAFFEY is a professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and the author or editor of several books, including
Collaborative Dubliners: Joyce in Dialogue,
Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions, and
States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce,
and the Irish Experiment.
Summary
Through a close examination of Joyce’s joyous, musical prose, Vicki Mahaffey shows how language provides us with a means of revitalizing daily experience and social interactions across a huge, diverse, everchanging world. A book for everyone who loves words, The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence.
