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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456017703321

Autore

Rabaté Jean-Michel <1949->

Titolo

James Joyce and the politics of egoism / / Jean-Michel Rabaté [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-12368-2

0-511-48527-1

1-280-16225-2

0-511-04395-3

0-511-15354-6

0-511-11965-8

0-521-80425-6

0-511-32515-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

823/.912

Soggetti

Politics and literature - Ireland - History - 20th century

Difference (Psychology) in literature

Modernism (Literature) - Ireland

Hospitality in literature

Egoism in literature

Self in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Après le mot, le déluge : the ego as symptom -- The ego, the nation and degeneration -- Joyce the egoist -- The aesthetic paradoxes of egoism: from egoism to the theoretic -- Theory's slice of life -- The egoist and the king -- The conquest of Paris -- Joyce's transitional revolution -- Hospitality and sodomy -- Textual hospitality in the 'capital city' -- Joyce's late modernism and the birth of the genetic reader -- Stewardism, Parnellism and egotism.

Sommario/riassunto

In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism, first published in 2001, a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of 'egoism'. This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs



throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, 'hospitality', a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to 'the other'. For Rabaté both concepts emerge from the fact that Joyce published crucial texts in the London based review The Egoist and later moved on to forge strong ties with the international Paris avant-garde. Rabaté examines the theoretical debates surrounding these connections, linking Joyce's engagement with Irish politics with the aesthetic aspects of his texts. Through egoism, he shows, Joyce defined a literary sensibility founded on negation; through hospitality, Joyce postulated the creation of a new, utopian readership. Rabaté explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all Joyceans and scholars of modernism.