Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, 20th Century Irish Fiction & Prose Literature - Literary Criticism, Gender Identity, Sex Role & Literature, Masculinity, Femininity
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Overview
Perhaps no literary work of the twentieth century has caused more controversy than James Joyce's Ulysses. The book America wanted to burn has instead earned a place as one of the most complex and most studied volumes of fiction. In this collection of essays each of the eighteen contributors offers new commentary on one of the episodes in Ulysses. Throughout Ulysses-En-Gendered Perspectives the common critical concern is with varying articulations of "femininities" and "masculinities" in Joyce's modernist epic. Each contributor attends to the extensive and various markings of gender in Ulysses and examines the ways in which such markings generate and en-gender other meanings.Editorials
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Joyce's not Homer's. Joyce specialists offer new commentary on the 18 episodes of the 20th-century novel, highlighting the various articulations of femininities and masculinities in the modernist epic. Treating gender as a form of overwriting, meaning both excess and layering, they explore such aspects as familial roles, labor assignments, perceptual modes, colonialist categories, sexualities, ethnicities, ways of knowing and learning, scents, tastes, and eating habits. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
May 31, 1999
Publisher
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1999.
Pages
368
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781570032882