The Joyce of Everyday Life: Contemporary Irish Writers
Autor Vicki Mahaffeyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 sep 2024
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781684485260
ISBN-10: 1684485266
Pagini: 276
Ilustrații: 8 color and 7 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bucknell University Press
Colecția Bucknell University Press
Seria Contemporary Irish Writers
ISBN-10: 1684485266
Pagini: 276
Ilustrații: 8 color and 7 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bucknell University Press
Colecția Bucknell University Press
Seria Contemporary Irish Writers
Notă biografică
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.
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
"A brilliant, lively guide to the joys of reading Joyce for intellectual stimulation and personal growth. With characteristic verve and lucidity, Mahaffey reminds us how Joyce’s words make us come alive to life and language as we glimpse ourselves in his nicely polished mirrors. Both new and veteran readers will benefit from Mahaffey's deep, witty engagements with Joyce’s fictions."
“An ode to the necessity for interpretive autonomy, Vicki Mahaffey’s The Joyce of Everyday Life joyfully explores the networks and coincidences and echoes and repetitions of James Joyce’s texts. Where other literary critics tell what a book is about, Mahaffey shows readers how to move through Joyce’s language. They could not have a better guide."
"At once a primer for reading Joyce and a parallactic rereading of familiar places in Joyce’s work. It is also a model of great reading and writing, eloquently conveying a practice of encounter, as its title suggests, with everyday subjects such as beds, love, fat, letters of all kinds, etc., through which Mahaffey brings Joyce down from the rarefied air. The book is rich with critical surprises. Don’t miss them.”
“Mahaffey shows that there is much to be learned about everyday life in Joyce’s fiction. However, Joyce does not drop chestnuts of wisdom for readers along a primrose path. Instead, he forges trails of potential self-discovery through a dense and thorny thicket of words. Mahaffey is the perfect guide to the rich forms of everyday self-reflection available to readers when navigating the language of Joyce’s selva oscura.”
"Feels like a book Joyce himself might have used as a glossary of sorts to explain his own thinking, his own word choice and word construction, and his own use of symbols—the symbols of everyday life including beds, handwriting, salmon, and love. After all, 'everyday life' is a recurring theme in Joyce’s work, and this book offers an intriguing and novel way 'in.'"
“An ode to the necessity for interpretive autonomy, Vicki Mahaffey’s The Joyce of Everyday Life joyfully explores the networks and coincidences and echoes and repetitions of James Joyce’s texts. Where other literary critics tell what a book is about, Mahaffey shows readers how to move through Joyce’s language. They could not have a better guide."
"At once a primer for reading Joyce and a parallactic rereading of familiar places in Joyce’s work. It is also a model of great reading and writing, eloquently conveying a practice of encounter, as its title suggests, with everyday subjects such as beds, love, fat, letters of all kinds, etc., through which Mahaffey brings Joyce down from the rarefied air. The book is rich with critical surprises. Don’t miss them.”
“Mahaffey shows that there is much to be learned about everyday life in Joyce’s fiction. However, Joyce does not drop chestnuts of wisdom for readers along a primrose path. Instead, he forges trails of potential self-discovery through a dense and thorny thicket of words. Mahaffey is the perfect guide to the rich forms of everyday self-reflection available to readers when navigating the language of Joyce’s selva oscura.”
"Feels like a book Joyce himself might have used as a glossary of sorts to explain his own thinking, his own word choice and word construction, and his own use of symbols—the symbols of everyday life including beds, handwriting, salmon, and love. After all, 'everyday life' is a recurring theme in Joyce’s work, and this book offers an intriguing and novel way 'in.'"
Descriere
Through a close examination of Joyce’s joyous, musical prose, Vicki Mahaffey shows how language provides us with a means of revitalizing daily experience and social interactions across a huge, diverse, everchanging world. A book for everyone who loves words, The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence.