Joyce, Benjamin and magical urbanism
By: edited by Maurizia Boscagli and Enda Duffy
Series: European Joyce studies -- 21; European Joyce studies -- 21.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9789042034259
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Modernism (Literature); Literature and society; Place (Philosophy) in literature; City and town life in literature; Cities and towns in literature
Description: Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism offers for the first time a sustained exploration of parallels between the fiction of James Joyce and the cultural criticism of Walter Benjamin. Benjamin is perhaps modernism's most eloquent theorist, Joyce its finest writer of fiction, both haunted the same Paris streets at the height of the modernist moment, and both developed accounts of the flaneur's encounter with the city, with commodity culture and with others, that were revolutionary in their day and continue to set the agendas for culture and cultural critique.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Joyce, Benjamin and magical urbanism / Enda Duffy and Maurizia Boscagli; title: Arcadian Ithaca / Douglas Mao; title: Memorial Dublin / Ellen Carol Jones; title: The communist flâneur, or, Joyce's boredom / Patrick McGee; title: Spectacle reconsidered: Joycean synaesthetics and the dialectic of the mutoscope / Maurizia Boscagli; title: Benjamin, Joyce and the disappearance of the dead / Graham MacPhee; title: The happy ring house / Enda Duffy; title: Joyce, Benjamin and the futurity of fiction / Heyward Ehrlich; title: "That bantry jobber:" William Martin Murphy and the critique of progress and productivity in Ulysses / Scott Kaufman; title: The vertical flâneur: narratorial tradecraft in the colonial metropolis / Paul K. Saint-Amour.