Bibliograph

James Joyce and the matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn

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James Joyce and the matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

James Joyce and the matter of Paris

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1084426707

Responsibility statement

Catherine Flynn

Summary

In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce's underexamined first exile in 1902-03, she shows the significance for his writing of the time he spent in Paris and of a range of French authors whose works inflected his experience of that city. In response to the pressures of Parisian consumer capitalism, Joyce drew on French literature to conceive a somatic aesthetic, in which the philosophically disparaged senses of taste, touch, and smell as well as the porous, digestive body resist capitalism's efforts to manage and instrumentalize desire. This book resituates the most canonical of Irish modernists in a European avant-garde context while revealing important links between Anglophone modernism and critical theory

Table Of Contents

Introduction: the matter of Paris -- Paris encountered: 1902/03 writings -- Paris recognized: Stephen Hero and Portrait -- Paris digested: "Lestrygonians" -- Paris reinvisioned: "Circe" -- Paris profanely illuminated: Joyce's Walter Benjamin -- Paris compounded: Finnegan's wake

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