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Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of the Other »

Book cover image of Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of the Other by Louis Armand

Authors: Louis Armand (Editor), Clare Wallace
ISBN-13: 9788023950465, ISBN-10: 8023950460
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Litteraria Pragensia
Date Published: February 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Louis Armand

Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural Studies program, Charles University, Prague. His books include Solicitations: Essays on Criticism and Culture. Clare Wallace is a lecturer at Charles University and at the University of New York, Prague.

Book Synopsis

Of all Joyce's extant works, Giacomo Joyce is the one that has least received its due. This book, the first collection of essays devoted entirely to Joyce's last published work, is an attempt to place the critical reception of this text within the larger framework of current Joyce studies.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations and Reference Style
Introduction: Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Other Joyce1
On Not Coming to Terms with Giacomo Joyce16
"Giacomo Joyce"22
The Image of the Artist: Giacomo Joyce, Ezra Pound and Jacques Derrida56
Epiphanies and Prose Lyrics: James Joyce and the Poetics of the Fragment80
Feydeau's Republic103
(M)othering Himself: Abjection and Cross-Gender Identification in Giacomo Joyce118
"Ghosts in the Mirror": Perception and the Visual in Giacomo Joyce160
Epiphanies of Language, Longing, Liminality in Giacomo Joyce176
The Adultery of Wisdom in Giacomo Joyce192
Apology in an Other's Hand: Giacomo Joyce: Who?201
A Portrait of the Artist as an Imaginary Casanova213
Eros and Apposition234
Resistances: Symptom and Desire in Giacomo Joyce243
AppSome Further Notes on Giacomo Joyce254
Selected Bibliography: Works on Giacomo Joyce259
Notes on Contributors264
Index266

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