1st Edition

James Joyce and the Politics of Desire

By Suzette A. Henke Copyright 1990
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

This title, first published in 1990, offers a feminist and psychoanalytic reassessment of the Joycean canon in the wake of Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva. The author centres her discussion of Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist, Finnegans Wake, and Exiles around questions of desire and language and the politics of sexual difference. Suzette Henke’s radical "re-vision" of Joyce’s work... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Abbreviations;  Introduction: Defusing the Patriarchal Can(n)on;  1. Through a Cracked Looking-Glass: Desire and Frustration in Dubliners  2. Stephen Dedalus and Women: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Narcissist  3. Interpreting Exiles: The Aesthetics of Unconsummated Desire  4. Uncoupling Ulysses: Joyce’s New Womanly Man  5. Molly Bloom: The Woman’s Story  6. Reading Finnegans Wake: The Feminiairity which Breathes Content;  Ricorso: Anna Livia Plurabelle and Ecriture Feminine;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

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