The Joyce of Everyday Life

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.

Product details

• Authors: Vicki Mahaffey
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2024
• EAN: 9781684485277
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-527-7
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies