The Joyce of Everyday Life

Vicki Mahaffey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

276 Seiten

2024
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-526-0 (ISBN)

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Part of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that country but they durst not move more for enchantment.” How might we learn to regain some of the child-like play with language and sense of delight in the ordinary that comes so naturally to Joyce?

The Joyce of Everyday Life teaches us how to interpret seemingly mundane objects and encounters with openness and active curiosity in order to attain greater self-understanding and a fuller appreciation of others. Through a close examination of Joyce's joyous, musical prose, this book shows how language provides us with the means to revitalize daily experience and social interactions across a huge, diverse, and everchanging world.

Acclaimed Joyce scholar Vicki Mahaffey demonstrates how his writing might prompt us to engage in a different kind of reading, treating words and fiction as tools for expanding the boundaries of the self with humor and feeling. A book for everyone who loves language, The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence.

VICKI MAHAFFEY is a professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and the author or editor of several books, including Collaborative Dubliners: Joyce in Dialogue, Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions, and States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment.

Introduction: On Living and Reading

1          On Beds

2          On Dirty Sheets

3          On Salmon

4          On Writing by Hand

5          On Fat

6          On Adultery and Virginity

7          On Love

8          On Religion (as Rereading)

9          On Glass

10        On Letters

11        On Closing and Opening

Epilogue: The Everyday

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	8 color and 7 B-W images
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	59 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-68448-526-6 / 1684485266
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-526-0 / 9781684485260
Zustand	Neuware