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Book Synopsis Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Peter Mahon
Download or read book Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Peter Mahon and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the most commonly studied texts, it guides the reader through Joyce's stylistic and thematic complexity and through differing theoretical interpretations of his work.
Book Synopsis Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Peter Mahon
Download or read book Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Peter Mahon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In clear and simple prose, Mahon explains how to connect this little black box to the Joycean engine. Just pull some gears, it falls into place and works." -Jean-Michel Rabaté, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania James Joyce's work has been regarded as some of the most obscure, challenging, and difficult writing ever committed to paper; it is also shamelessly funny and endlessly entertaining. Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed celebrates the daring, humor and playfulness of Joyce's complex work while engaging with and elucidating the most demanding aspects of his writing. The book explores in detail the motifs and radical innovations of style and technique that characterize his major works-Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. By highlighting how Joyce's texts have been read by recent innovations in literary and cultural theory, Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed offers the reader a Joyce that is contemporary, fresh, and relevant.
Book Synopsis McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed by : W. Terrence Gordon
Download or read book McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed written by W. Terrence Gordon and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall McLuhan was dubbed a media guru when he came to prominence in the 1960s. The Woodstock generation found him cool; their parents found him perplexing. By 1963, McLuhan was Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto and would be a public intellectual on the international stage for more than a decade, then linked forever to his two best known coinages: the global village and the medium is the message. Taken as a whole, McLuhan's writings reveal a profound coherence and illuminate his unifying vision for the study of language, literature, and culture, grounded in the broad understanding of any medium or technology as an extension of the human body. McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed is a close reading of all of his work with a focus on tracing the systematic development of his thought. The overriding objective is to clarify all of McLuhan's thinking, to consolidate it in a fashion which prevents misreading, and to open the way to advancing his own program: ensuring that the world does not sleepwalk into the twenty-first century with nineteenth-century perceptions.
Book Synopsis Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Sean Sheehan
Download or read book Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Sean Sheehan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most widely-read thinkers writing today, Slavoj Žižek's work can be both thrilling and perplexing in equal measure. Žižek: A Guide for the Perplexed is the most up-to-date guide available for readers struggling to master the ideas of this hugely influential thinker. Unpacking the philosophical references that fill Žižek's writings, the book explores his influences, including Lacan, Kant, Hegel and Marx. From there, a chapter on 'Reading Žižek' guides the reader through the ways that he applies these core theoretical concepts in key texts like Tarrying With the Negative, The Ticklish Subject and The Parrallax View and in his books about popular culture like Looking Awry and Enjoy Your Symptom! Major secondary writings and films featuring Žižek are also covered.
Book Synopsis Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Jeff Love
Download or read book Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Jeff Love and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature.
Download or read book Useless Joyce written by Tim Conley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical, are in fact polymorphous meditations on this question. Examinations of traditional textual functions such as quoting, editing, translating, and annotating texts are set against the ways in which texts may be assigned unexpected but thoroughly practical purposes. Conley’s accessible and witty engagement with the material views the rise of explication and commentary on Joyce’s work as an industry not unlike the rise of self-help publishing. We can therefore read Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as various kinds of guides and uncover new or forgotten “uses” for them. Useless Joyce invites new discussions about the assumptions at work behind our definitions of literature, interpretation, and use.
Book Synopsis McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed by : W. Terrence Gordon
Download or read book McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed written by W. Terrence Gordon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall McLuhan was dubbed a media guru when he came to prominence in the 1960s. The Woodstock generation found him cool; their parents found him perplexing. By 1963, McLuhan was Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto and would be a public intellectual on the international stage for more than a decade, then linked forever to his two best known coinages: the global village and the medium is the message. Taken as a whole, McLuhan's writings reveal a profound coherence and illuminate his unifying vision for the study of language, literature, and culture, grounded in the broad understanding of any medium or technology as an extension of the human body. McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed is a close reading of all of his work with a focus on tracing the systematic development of his thought. The overriding objective is to clarify all of McLuhan's thinking, to consolidate it in a fashion which prevents misreading, and to open the way to advancing his own program: ensuring that the world does not sleepwalk into the twenty-first century with nineteenth-century perceptions.
Download or read book James Joyce written by Colin MacCabe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction highlights one of the most influential writers of the 20th century: James Joyce. He is best known for his complex style, reinvention of language, and depiction of contemporary Ireland. Yet at the time of writing his work faced intense criticism, and his modernist epic Ulysses was banned for over a decade in Britain and America for obscenity. This VSI explores Joyce's major works including Ulysses, Dubliners, and Finnegans Wake. It considers the contemporary significance of Joyce's examination of sexuality and nationalism, and places Joyce's works in the context of his life as well as the historical moment in which they were written.
Download or read book Joyce's Ulysses written by Sean Sheehan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ulysses remains less widely read than most texts boasting such a canonical status, largely due to misunderstanding about how to read it, and this guide provides an easy to follow remedy. By showing how Joyce reacted to the historical and cultural context in which he was situated, the radical nature of his use of language is laid bare in a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Ulysses. This approach enables the student reader to read and enjoy the novel's plurality of styles and to understand the terms of critical debate surrounding the nature and significance of Joyce's novel.
Book Synopsis Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Mary Klages
Download or read book Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Mary Klages and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide introduces theory in a clear, accessible way, focusing on the major approaches and theorists.
Book Synopsis Modernist Literature: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Peter Childs
Download or read book Modernist Literature: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Peter Childs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete introduction to Modernist writers, ideas and movements, this book considers the precursors as well as the legacy of Modernist Literature in a clear, accessible manner.
Book Synopsis Imagining Joyce and Derrida by : Peter Mahon
Download or read book Imagining Joyce and Derrida written by Peter Mahon and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is meaning in one text shaped by another? Does intertextuality consist of more than simple references by one text to another? This work explores these questions through a comparative study of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" and the deconstructive texts of Jacques Derrida, with a particular emphasis on "Glas".
Download or read book James Joyce written by Lee Spinks and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce: A Critical Guide presents a full and comprehensive account of the major writing of the great modernist novelist James Joyce. Ranging right across Joyce's literary corpus from his earliest artistic beginnings to his mature prose masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, the book provides detailed textual analysis of each of his major works. It also provides an extended discussion of the biographical, historical, political and social contexts that inform Joyce's writing and a wide-ranging discussion of the multiple strands of Joyce criticism that have established themselves over the last eighty years. The book's combination of sustained close reading of individual texts and critical breadth makes it an ideal companion for both undergraduate students and the wider community of Joyce's readers.
Download or read book Joyce's Critics written by Joseph Brooker and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Brooker's synthesis lucidly summarizes more than seventy years of Joyce criticism. This is the first broad study of how James Joyce's work was received in the Anglophone world, accessibly written for both academic and lay readers. Brooker shows how the reading of Joyce's work has moved through different critical paradigms, periods, and places, and how Joyce's writing has given generations of readers a way to discuss the major issues of the modern world.
Book Synopsis Joyce, Bakhtin, and the Literary Tradition by : M. Keith Booker
Download or read book Joyce, Bakhtin, and the Literary Tradition written by M. Keith Booker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates James Joyce's relationship to his literary predecessors in new and important ways
Book Synopsis Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text by : Darcy Cullen
Download or read book Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text written by Darcy Cullen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the theories and practices of editing, the processes of production and reproduction, and the relationships between authors and texts as well as that between manuscripts and books to offer insight into the past and future of academic communication.
Download or read book Culture, 1922 written by Marc Manganaro and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture, 1922 traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the twentieth century. With primary attention to how models of culture are created, elaborated upon, transformed, resisted, and ignored, Marc Manganaro works across disciplinary lines to embrace literary, literary critical, and anthropological writing. Tracing two traditions of thinking about culture, as elite products and pursuits and as common and shared systems of values, Manganaro argues that these modernist formulations are not mutually exclusive and have indeed intermingled in complex and interesting ways throughout the development of literary studies and anthropology. Beginning with the important Victorian architects of culture--Matthew Arnold and Edward Tylor--the book follows a number of main figures, schools, and movements up to 1950 such as anthropologist Franz Boas, his disciples Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Zora Neale Hurston, literary modernists T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, functional anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, modernist literary critic I. A. Richards, the New Critics, and Kenneth Burke. The main focus here, however, is upon three works published in 1922, the watershed year of Modernism--Eliot's The Waste Land, Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific, and Joyce's Ulysses. Manganaro reads these masterworks and the history of their reception as efforts toward defining culture. This is a wide-ranging and ambitious study about an ambiguous and complex concept as it moves within and between disciplines.