Joyce: The Return of the Repressed

Did James Joyce, That Icon Of Modernity, Spearhead The Dismantling Of The Cartesian Subject? Or Was He A Supreme Example Of A Modern Man Forever Divided And Never Fully Known To Himself? This Volume Reads The Dialogue Of Contradictory Cultural Voices In Joyce's Works-revolutionary And Reactionary, Critical And Subject To Critique, Marginal And Central. It Includes Ten Essays That Identify Repressed Elements In Joyce's Writings And Examine How Psychic And Cultural Repressions Persistently Surface In His Texts. Contributors Include Joseph A. Boone, Marilyn L. Brownstein, Jay Clayton, Laura Doyle, Susan Stanford Friedman, Christine Froula, Ellen Carol Jones, Alberto Moreirias, Richard Pearce, And Robert Spoo. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations For Texts By James Joyce -- Introduction. Susan Stanford Friedman -- Part I. Making The Artist Of Modernity: Stephen Hero, Portrait, Ulysses -- Part Ii. Repression And The Return Of Cultural History: Dubliners And Portrait -- Part Iii. Narratives Of Gender, Race, And Sex: Ulysses -- Part Iv. Incest, Narcissism, And The Scene Of Writing : Ulysses And Finnegans Wake -- Notes On Contributors -- Index Susan Stanford Friedman. Includes Index. In English.