Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed
A Guide for the Perplexed
Published on 2. September 2009
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-8264-8791-9 (ISBN)
Description
James Joyce's work has, not unjustly, been regarded as some of the most obscure, challenging and difficult writing ever committed to paper; it is also shamelessly funny and endlessly entertaining. Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed celebrates the daring, humour and playfulness of Joyce's complex work while engaging with and elucidating the most demanding aspects of his writing. The book explores in detail the motifs and radical innovations of style and technique that characterize his major worksGAao Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. By highlighting how Joyce's texts have been read by recent innovations in literary and cultural theory, Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed offers the reader a Joyce that is contemporary, fresh and relevant.
Reviews / Votes
"When Peter Mahon guides us through the main works of James Joyce, he doesn't provide the roadmap for an ancient Irish maze but offers a brand new GPS, a Global Positioning System or a Guide for Perplexed Students. In clear and simple prose, Mahon explains how to connect this little black box to the Joycean engine. Just pull some gears, it falls into place and works. Sit back, read some more, you'll be able at last to enjoy the Joyce ride." Jean-Michel Rabat, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, USA"More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
434 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-8791-9 (9780826487919)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
09/2009
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€32.99
Available for download
Person
Peter Mahon teaches in the Department of English at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of Imagining Joyce and Derrida: Between Finnegans Wake and Glas (University of Toronto Press, 2007).
Content
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.