Neil R. Davison

James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity

Culture, Biography, and 'The Jew' in Modernist Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

Representations of "the Jew" have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies; in James Joyce, Ulysses, and the construction of Jewish identity Neil R. Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious, and political discourse about "the Jew" forms a unifying component of his career. Davison offers new biographical material to support the claim that "the Jew" was a dynamic aspect of Joyce's imagination from youth to adulthood, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses to show how Joyce draws on Christian folklore, Dreyfus Affair propaganda, Sinn Fein politics, and theories of Jewish sexual perversion and financial conspiracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780521636209
• ISBN-10: 0521636205
• Artikelnr.: 21260746

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Anthony Julius
Introduction
1. Silence: family values
2. Silence: Jesuit years: Clongowes and Belvedere
3. Silence: university years: the Church, Dreyfus, and aesthetics
4. Exile: excursion to the Continent, bitter return
5. Cunning and exile: Greeks and Jews
6. Cunning: Jews and the Continent: texts and subtexts
7. Cunning: the miracle of Lazarus times two: Joyce and Italo Svevo
8. Ulysses
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.