Joyce's Non-Fiction Writings [electronic resource] : "Outside His Jurisfiction" /
Ebury, Katherine.editor.
Fraser, James Alexander.editor.
This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyce's non-fictional writings. Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped scholarly approaches to these works for over half a decade, showing that non-fiction as a categorical distinction, no matter how sensible it appears, crumbles under closer inspection. Bringing into conversation a group of key Joyce scholars, this volume acts not only as a vital reimagining of our critical relationship to Joyce's non-fiction, but as a contribution to similar debates being carried out across the broad range of modernist studies.
1. Introduction; Katherine Ebury and James Fraser -- 2. Please, Mr. Postman: Joyce's Expanding Epistolary Novel; Michael Groden -- 3. "He chronicled with patience": Early Joycean Progressions between Non-Fictionality and Fiction; Hans Walter Gabler -- 4. Tracing the Curve of an Emotion: Joyce's Early "Portrait" Essay; Terence Killeen -- 5. Is It Joyce We Are Reading?: Nonfiction, Authorship and Digital Humanities; Kevin Barry with Kevin Feeney, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Bojan Božić -- 6. James Joyce as Cultural Critic; Emer Nolan -- 7. Into the West: Joyce on Aran; John McCourt -- 8. Writing Journalism, Writing Betrayal: The Formation of a Journalistic Voice; James Fraser -- 9. Becoming-animal in the Epiphanies: Joyce Between Fiction and Non-Fiction; Katherine Ebury -- 10. For Frankness' Sake': Confessional Structures in Giacomo Joyce; JT Welsch.
This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyce's non-fictional writings. Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped scholarly approaches to these works for over half a decade, showing that non-fiction as a categorical distinction, no matter how sensible it appears, crumbles under closer inspection. Bringing into conversation a group of key Joyce scholars, this volume acts not only as a vital reimagining of our critical relationship to Joyce's non-fiction, but as a contribution to similar debates being carried out across the broad range of modernist studies.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.