James Joyce and the politics of egoism

Rabaté, Jean-Michel 1949- (Author).

Summary: In James Joyce and the politics of egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of "egoism". This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, "hospitality", a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to "the other". Rabaté explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars of modernism.

Record details

ISBN: 0511017847 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511017841 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0511119658 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511119651 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780521804257 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0521804256 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780521009584 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0521009588 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780511485275 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0511485271 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (ix, 248 pages)
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Après le mot, le déluge : the ego as symptom -- The ego, the nation and degeneration -- Joyce the egoist -- The aesthetic paradoxes of egoism: from egoism to the theoretic -- Theory's slice of life -- The egoist and the king -- The conquest of Paris -- Joyce's transitional revolution -- Hospitality and sodomy -- Textual hospitality in the 'capital city' -- Joyce's late modernism and the birth of the genetic reader -- Stewardism, Parnellism and egotism.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.