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Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History »

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Authors: Derek Attridge
ISBN-13: 9780521777889, ISBN-10: 0521777887
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Derek Attridge

Book Synopsis

This is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
References and abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: On being a Joycean1
1Deconstructive criticism of Joyce22
2Popular Joyce?30
3Touching 'Clay': reference and reality in Dubliners35
4Joyce and the ideology of character52
5'Suck was a queer word': language, sex, and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man59
6Joyce, Jameson, and the text of history78
7Wakean history: not yet86
8Molly's flow: the writing of 'Penelope' and the question of women's language93
9The postmodernity of Joyce: chance, coincidence, and the reader117
10Countlessness of livestories: narrativity in Finnegans Wake126
11Finnegans awake, or the dream of interpretation133
12The Wake's confounded language156
13Envoi: judging Joyce163
Works cited189
Index201

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