Joyce through Lacan and ¿i¿ek

Explorations
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-37164-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 267 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Reihe: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brivic, S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Exploring Freedom Through Language PART I: THE REVOLUTIONARY PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST Stephen Dedalus Gets Changed Freedom Through Figuration in A Portrait Entwined Genders in A Portrait Žižek, Fantasy, and Truth PART II: ULYSSES OFF COURSE Let's Get Lost: Exploration in Homer and Joyce Structure as Discovery in Ulysses Ulysses' "Circe": Dealing in Shame Part III: FINNEGANS WAKE AS THE WORLD Reality as Fetish: The Crime In Finnegans Wake The Africanist Dimension of Finnegans Wake The Rising Sun: Asia in Finnegans Wake Conclusion: Exploration and Comedy Works

Über Autor(innen)

SHELLY BRIVIC is Professor of English, Temple University, USA.