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Zusatztext Beyond simply explicating themes and passages, Mahon provides his readers with strategies on how to approach Joyce through analysing the evolution of styles across his works. Mahon does an elegant job of applying what could be called theoretical readings in an accessible manner. Informationen zum Autor Peter Mahon teaches in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Imagining Joyce and Derrida: Between Finnegans Wake and Glas (2007), Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed (2009) and Violence, Politics and Textual Interventions in Northern Ireland (2010). He has published essays in journals such as ELH, James Joyce Quarterly, Irish University Review, Partial Answers, as well as in edited volumes. He is currently writing a book on Reason and Unreason and researching digital reading as part of a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Klappentext Focusing on the most commonly studied texts! it guides the reader through Joyce's stylistic and thematic complexity and through differing theoretical interpretations of his work. Vorwort Focusing on the most commonly studied texts, it guides the reader through Joyce's stylistic and thematic complexity and through differing theoretical interpretations of his work. Zusammenfassung Celebrates the daring, humor and playfulness of James Joyce's complex work while engaging with and elucidating the most demanding aspects of his writing. This book explores in detail the motifs and radical innovations of style and technique that characterize his major works - "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", and "Ulysses". Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introducing Joyce: Realism and Epiphany in Dubliners 2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Sexual Politics of Art 3. Reading Ulysses I: From "Telemachus" to "The Wandering Rocks" 4. Reading Ulysses II: "Sirens" to "Penelope" 5. The Language(s) and Structure(s) of Finnegans Wake 6. Conclusion: "Where are we at all?" Suggested Further Reading Index...
