Joyce through Lacan and Zizek: Explorations

by S. Brivic

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230603301
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/17/2008
Series:	New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"[A] hugely enjoyable book...The expanding universe of Zizekian interpretation opens up to the judicious critic who, armed with Brivic's great knowledge of all things Joycean, can re-launch the sinthome, now freed from its cryptic vault and able to address many aspects of Joycean experience." - The James Joyce Quarterly

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