This book offers a fundamental and comprehensive re-evaluation of one
of Joyce’s most pervasive themes. By showing that betrayal was
central to how Joyce understood and depicted the difficulties and
terrors at the heart of all relationships, this
book re-conceives Joyce’s approach to history, politics, and the
other. Leaving behind the pathologizing discourses by which Joyce’s
interest in betrayal has been treated as an ‘obsession,’ this book
offers a vision of Joyce as both dramatist and theorist of betrayal.
It demonstrates that, rather than being compelled by some unconscious
urge to produce and reproduce textual betrayals, Joyce had a deep and
hard-won conception of the specific dramatic energies wrapped up in
the language and structures of betrayal and repeatedly found ways to
make use of this understanding in his work.
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ISBN
9781137595881
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Springer Nature
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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