1st Edition
Joyce as Theory Hermeneutic Ethics in Derrida, Lacan, and Finnegans Wake
By Gabriel Renggli
Copyright 2023
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Joyce as Theory is the first book-length examination of James Joyce to argue he can be read as a theorist. Joyce is not just a favourite case study of literary theory; he wrote about how we make meaning, and to what effect. The present volume traces his hermeneutics in those narratives in Finnegans Wake which deal with textual production and interpretation, showing that the Wake ’s... Read more
Introduction
1: Reading What Is Not There
2: The Penman and the Critic
3: Tower of Babel
4: Making Do
Concluding Remarks: The Uses of Difficulty
Biography
Gabriel Renggli was educated in French-speaking Switzerland, Dublin, and York. He received his PhD in English from the University of York in 2016. His publications include work on James Joyce, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, liberation theology, and Jorge Luis Borges, examining various overlaps between fiction, hermeneutics, ontology, and ethics. He lives in Zurich.
