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Joyce's Messianism: Dante, Negative Existence, And The Messianic Self Hardcover – December 1, 2004
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Balsamo traces the engagement of each of the three characters in a negative existence immune from the rules and limitations of ordinary experience. Each struggles to express rather than exorcise the fecundity of his own mortality; each reinvents his biography as involving the pivotal transaction of deathbe it a mothers, a sons, or even that of his own bodyin return for catharsis.
Drawing on the writings of Giambattista Vico, Saint Augustine, Émile Durkheim, and Noam Chomsky, Balsamo challenges the current debate by identifying the messianic thread that ties together the biographies of Joyces three characters. Faced with the fissure between history and poetic vocation, Stephen embraces the sacrificial poetry of silence. Faced with the domestic squalor provoked by the loss of his son, Leopold renews at every meal the cathartic exchange of food and semen. Faced with a destiny of death and decomposition, Shem reenacts the tradition of the medieval cycle drama, stretching his own body like a parchment on a cross and then rubricating it like a sacred manuscript. GIAN BALSAMO, an Italian writer, is a professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo. He has previously taught at Northwestern University and Stanford University. Balsamo is the author of Lettera alla Venere in pelliccia and Il fallo e la legge, as well as Rituals of Literature, Scriptural Poetics in Joyces "Finnegans Wake," and Pruning the Genealogical Tree. He lives in Palo Alto, California, and Cairo.
- Print length168 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
- Publication dateDecember 1, 2004
- Dimensions6.5 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-101570035520
- ISBN-13978-1570035524
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- Publisher : University of South Carolina Press (December 1, 2004)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 168 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1570035520
- ISBN-13 : 978-1570035524
- Item Weight : 14.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches
About the author
Gian Balsamo is a student of everything. He is the author of Ortigia Noir and Carmel Noir, as well as of Proust and His Banker, a literary-financial study of Marcel Proust. He lives in San Francisco.
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