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Joyce through Lacan and Žižek

Explorations

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Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction: Exploring Freedom through Language

  3. The Revolitionary Portrait of the Artist

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
    2. Stephen Dedalus Gets Changed

      • Shelly Brivic
      Pages 25-43
    3. Freedom through Figuration in A Portrait

      • Shelly Brivic
      Pages 45-60
    4. Entwined Genders in A Portrait

      • Shelly Brivic
      Pages 61-80
    5. Žižek, Fantasy, and Truth

      • Shelly Brivic
      Pages 81-97
  4. Ulysses Off Course

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
    2. Structure as Discovery in Ulysses

      • Shelly Brivic
      Pages 121-142
    3. Ulysses’ “Circe”: Dealing in Shame

      • Shelly Brivic
      Pages 143-160
  5. Finnegans Wake as the World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
    2. The Africanist Dimension of Finnegans Wake

      • Shelly Brivic
      Pages 181-194
    3. The Rising Sun: Asia in Finnegans Wake

      • Shelly Brivic
      Pages 195-216
  6. Conclusion and Supplement: Exploration and Comedy

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 227-267

About this book

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.

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

About the author

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

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