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De-familiarizing Readings: Essays from the Austin Joyce Conference
Author(s): Alan W. Friedman (Editor), Charles Rossman
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: January 1, 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 108 pages
- ISBN-10: 9042032375
- ISBN-13: 9789042032378
Book Description
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.
