Joyce's Ghosts

图书信息

作者	Gibbons, Luke
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226236209
出版时间	2015-11-13
字数	63.4万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

For decades, James Joyce's modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe's urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure.In Joyce's Ghosts, Luke Gibbons mounts a powerful argument that this view is mistaken: Joyce's Irishness is intrinsic to his modernism, informing his most distinctive literary experiments. Ireland, Gibbons shows, is not just a source of subject matter or content for Joyce, but of form itself. Joyce's stylistic innovations can be traced at least as much to the tragedies of Irish history as to the shock of European modernity, as he explores the incomplete project of inner life under colonialism. Joyce's language, Gibbons reveals, is haunted by ghosts, less concerned with the stream of consciousness than with a vernacular interior dialogue, the "e;shout in the street,"e; that gives room to outside voices and shadowy presences, the disruptions of a late colonial?culture in crisis.Showing us how memory under modernism breaks free of the nightmare of history, and how in doing so it gives birth to new forms, Gibbons forces us to think anew about Joyce's achievement and its foundations.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: “A Ghost by Absence”

1: Text and the City

2: “Shouts in the Street”

3: “He Says No, Your Worship”

4: “Ghostly Light”

5: “Pale Phantoms of Desire”

6: “Spaces of Time through Times of Space”

7: “Famished Ghosts”

8: “Haunting Face”

Notes

Index