The German Joyce
By: Robert K. Weninger ; foreword by Sebastian D. G. Knowles
Contributors: Knowles, Sebastian D. G. (Sebastian David Guy)
Series: The Florida James Joyce series; Florida James Joyce series
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780813041667
Subjects: German influences; Criticism and interpretation; English fiction
Description: An exploration of the influence of and connection to German writers and literary traditions in the works of James Joyce.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The Nacheinander: the German reception of Joyce; title: 1. Exiles, Act I: Enter James Joyce, a "poet of silence and truth"; title: 2. "The Homer of our time": the German reception of Ulysses, 1919-1945; title: 3. "Joyce has made me a different reader: I am just glad I don't have to understand him": The institutionalization of "Joyce" after 1945; title: Part II: The Nebeneinander: intertextual echoes; title: 4. "A great poet on a great brother poet": a parallactic reading of Goethe and Joyce; title: 5. Joyce, {DADA} & Co.: modernist Con{I}{n}fluences; title: 6. The epitome of the epiphany: Stephen and Malte, Joyce and Rilke; title: 7. ""Concordances" of utter chaos post rem": a portrait of James Joyce as a chapter in German (Marxist) literary history.