Wandering and Return in Finnegans Wake
Title | Wandering and Return in Finnegans Wake PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberley J. Devlin |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2014-07-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1400861748 |
Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce's last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans Wake as an uncanny text, one that is both strange and familiar. In light of Freud's description of the uncanny as a haunting awareness of earlier, repressed phases of the self, Devlin finds the uncanniness of the Wake rooted in Joyce's rewritings of literary fictions from his earlier artistic periods. She demonstrates the notion of psychological return as she traces the obsessions, scenarios, and images from Joyce's "waking" fictions that resurface in his final dreamtext in uncanny forms, transformed yet discernible, often to uncover hidden, unconscious truths. Drawing on psychoanalytic arguments and recent feminist theory, Devlin maps intertextual connections that reveal many of Joyce's most deeply felt imaginative and intellectual concerns, such as the self in its decentered relationship to language, the elusive nature of human identity, the anxieties implicit in mortal selfhood, the male subject in its opposition to the female sexual "other." She suggests that the Wake records Joyce's implicit interest in the psychological counterpart to Vico's theory of historical repetition: Freud's theory of the insistent internal return of earlier narratives. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Wandering and Return in Finnegans Wake
Title | Wandering and Return in Finnegans Wake PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly J. Devlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780691068862 |
Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce's last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans Wake as an uncanny text, one that is both strange and familiar. In light of Freud's description of the uncanny as a haunting awareness of earlier, repressed phases of the self, Devlin finds the uncanniness of the Wake rooted in Joyce's rewritings of literary fictions from his earlier artistic periods. She demonstrates the notion of psychological return as she traces the obsessions, scenarios, and images from Joyce's "waking" fictions that resurface in his final dreamtext in uncanny forms, transformed yet discernible, often to uncover hidden, unconscious truths. Drawing on psychoanalytic arguments and recent feminist theory, Devlin maps intertextual connections that reveal many of Joyce's most deeply felt imaginative and intellectual concerns, such as the self in its decentered relationship to language, the elusive nature of human identity, the anxieties implicit in mortal selfhood, the male subject in its opposition to the female sexual "other." She suggests that the Wake records Joyce's implicit interest in the psychological counterpart to Vico's theory of historical repetition: Freud's theory of the insistent internal return of earlier narratives. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Wandering and Return in "Finnegan's Wake"
Title | Wandering and Return in "Finnegan's Wake" PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly J. Devlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780608045863 |
James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child
Title | James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Adams |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2022-06-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000647625 |
This book is an exploration of the internal world of James Joyce with particular emphasis on his being born into his parents’ grief at the loss of their firstborn son, offering a new perspective on his emotional difficulties. Mary Adams links Joyce’s profound sense of guilt and abandonment with the trauma of being a ‘replacement child’ and compares his experience with that of two psychoanalytic cases, as well as with Freud and other well-known figures who were replacement children. Issues such as survivor guilt, sibling rivalry, the ‘illegitimate’ replacement son, and the ‘dead mother’ syndrome are discussed. Joyce is seen as maturing from a paranoid, fearful state through his writing, his intelligence, his humour and his sublime poetic sensibility. By escaping the oppressive aspects of life in Dublin, in exile he could find greater emotional freedom and a new sense of belonging. A quality of claustrophobic intrusive identification in Ulysses contrasts strikingly with a new levity, imaginative identification, intimacy and compassion in Finnegans Wake. James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child highlights the concept of the replacement child and the impact this can have on a whole family. The book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and child psychotherapists as well as students of English literature, psychoanalytic studies and readers interested in James Joyce.
James Joyce and Victims
Title | James Joyce and Victims PDF eBook |
Author | Sean P. Murphy |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780838639504 |
In A Portrait and Ulysses, Joyce carefully disassembles the totality of civil society Dubliners inhabit to reveal the ways in which the church and state circumscribe citizens' imagination. The colonized, however, do possess power to deform cultural directives and to resist the roles in which colonizers cast them, but this power originates within logics which exclude and divide."--Jacket.
Joyce Effects
Title | Joyce Effects PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Attridge |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2000-03-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521777889 |
This is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce.
The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake
Title | The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake PDF eBook |
Author | Eric McLuhan |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780802009234 |
The study establishes the nature and aims of Finnegans Wake as Menippean satire and interprets the Wake in that light. McLuhan examines Joyce's use of language, and in particular his use of ten hundred-lettered words (thunderclaps).