Timeless Joyce : a hundred years of Ulysses / Asun López-Varela Azcárate.
| Author/creator | López-Varela, Asunción author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2023] |
| Description | ix, 252 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The mythical method -- Giambattista Vico and the mytho-poetic episteme -- Nostos and the future of nostalgia -- The philosophy of temporal becoming : stream-of-consciousness and beyond -- Joyce, the craftsman -- Irony and parody -- Coincidentia oppositorum -- Dissimilar similarities -- Obscurum per obscurius : philosophies of the occult in Ulysses -- Apophatic theology and what Joyce read at the Marsh's library -- The motifs of Katabasis and Nekyia across 'Proteus', 'Hades', and 'Circe' -- Signs on a white field. From 'Proteus' to 'Lestrygonians' -- Lessing's Nacheinander and Nebeneinander -- Between Scylla and Charybdis -- Reading backwards. Inquiries into Bloom's Jewishness and forms of double-coding -- Reading vertically. Sonic & cosmic correspondences -- Penelope. The centre of the spiral. |
| Abstract | "2022 marked the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses. This book is a celebration of Joyce's text and of the aspects that make his masterpiece timeless. The volume is structured under the inspiration of Brancusi's spiral image, "Symbol of James Joyce". It shows Joyce's play in two movements: a centripetal move towards unity, using myth, analogies and correspondences and a centrifugal force, with a cunning mixture of irony and unanticipated turns, where the dream of unity is shattered and the text resonates in multiple directions, manifesting its diversity through forms of duplicity and double coding. The double spiral movement of Joyce's novel is aimed at contrasting diverse perspectives on existential issues as well as religious, political and even gender aspects. Aspects such as Joyce's mytho-poetics, the future of nostalgia, temporal becoming, coincidentia oppositorum, apophatic theology and philosophies of the occult are explored as part of an allegorical dimension of myth that simultaneously seeks and refuses holistic unity. Readers are involved in a sort of rite of passage, like Odysseus in his perilous journey, forced to read forwards, backwards and vertically in the fractal structure of the novel through which Joyce achieves its poetics of infinity"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: López-Varela, Asunción. Timeless Joyce Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2023] 9781803740508 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2023018025 |
| ISBN | 9781800799974 |
| ISBN | 1800799977 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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