Cannibal Joyce [electronic resource] /
Rice, Thomas Jackson.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2008.
Thomas Rice uses the concept of cannibalism ('dismemberment, ingestion, and reprocessing') to describe Joyce's incorporation of so many literary and cultural allusions, both 'high' and 'popular'. Beginning with examples of actual and symbolic cannibalism that fascinated Joyce - the Donner party, the Catholic Eucharist - he moves on to the ways Joyce appropriated language and elements of material culture into his work.
Thomas Rice uses the concept of cannibalism ('dismemberment, ingestion, and reprocessing') to describe Joyce's incorporation of so many literary and cultural allusions, both 'high' and 'popular'. Beginning with examples of actual and symbolic cannibalism that fascinated Joyce - the Donner party, the Catholic Eucharist - he moves on to the ways Joyce appropriated language and elements of material culture into his work.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-201) and index.
Preface: From cannibalism to cannibalization -- "Consumption, was it?": Joyce and cannibalism -- Cannibalizing language -- The distant music of the spheres: language as axiomatic system -- "Mr. Berlicche and Mr. Joyce": language as comestible -- Cannibalizing literature -- Consuming high culture: allusion and structure in "The dead" -- A taste for/of "inferior literary style": the (Tom) Swiftian comedy of Scylla and Charybdis -- Cannibalizing material culture -- Condoms, Conrad, and Joyce -- His master's voice and Joyce -- The cultural transfer of film, radio, and television.
Description based on print version record.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Joyce, James, 1882-1941