Publication

2019 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

62,500 words, Guess

Page Count

250 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781108485579
  • ISBN-10110848557X
  • OCLC Control Number1084426707
  • Better World Books9781108485579
  • Open LibraryOL28724909M

Classifications

  • LCCPR6019.O9 Z632 2019

Description

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.

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  • James Joyce and the Matter of ParisCambridge University Press2019-01-01

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