De-Familiarizing Readings: Essays from the Austin Joyce Conference (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789042032378)

Unlike many recent Joyce studies, De-familiarizing Readings eschews the theoretical and ideological and instead plants itself on firmer ground. Its seven outstanding Joyce scholars share a love of the "stuff" of texts, contexts, and intertexts: data and dates, food and clothing, letters and journals, literary allusions, and other quotidian desiderata. Their inductive approaches - whether to Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses, or Finnegans Wake - are thoroughly researched, argued with meticulous, even nit-picking, precision, and offer the pleasurable reading experience of forensic analysis. And in the end they provide the satisfaction of reaching persuasive conclusions that seem both striking and inevitable.

Author: Alan W. Friedman
ISBN-10: 9042032375
ISBN-13: 9789042032378
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 103
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.66h x 5.91w x 0.23d