James Joyce and the Matter of Paris

James Joyce must be understood as drawing on French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary innovations to grapple with the challenges of Paris.

List of contents

Introduction: the matter of Paris; 1. Paris encountered: 1902-03 writings; 2. Paris recognized: Stephen Hero and Portrait; 3. Paris digested: 'Lestrygonians'; 4. Paris re-envisioned: 'Circe'; 5. Paris profanely illuminated: Joyce's Walter Benjamin; 6. Paris compounded: Finnegans Wake.

About the author

Catherine Flynn is Associate Professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. She is the editor of a forthcoming volume titled The New Joyce Studies (Cambridge). She is co-editor with Richard Brown of the James Joyce Quarterly special issue, 'Joycean Avant-Gardes'. Before studying literature, she practiced as an architect in Vienna, Austria, and in Ireland.

Summary

This book is essential reading for Joyceans, Irish modernists, and Anglophone modernists, and also for scholars of transnational modernism, of comparative European literatures, of the life of the sensorium, and of culture and capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Foreword

James Joyce must be understood as drawing on French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary innovations to grapple with the challenges of Paris.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine (University of California Flynn, Flynn Catherine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781108707329
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70732-9
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, Ireland, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000