Quare Joyce
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Quare Joyce
University of Michigan Press, c1998
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Note
Includes index
Contents of Works
- Joyce's (sexual) choices : a historical overview / Joseph Valente
- A Walk on the Wild(e) side : the doubled reading of "An encounter" / Margot Norris
- ON Joycean and Wildean sodomy / Jean-Michel Rabaté
- Thrilled by his touch : the aestheticizing of homosexual panic in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Joseph Valente
- "The nothing place" : secrets and sexual orientation in Joyce / Garry Leonard
- James Joyce, tattoo artist : tracing the outlines of homosocial desire / Jennifer Levine
- Pére-version and im-mére-sion : idealized corruption in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Picture of Dorian Gray / Vicki Mahaffey
- Casement, Joyce, and Pound : some new meanings of treason / Robert L. Caserio
- Confessing oneself : homoeros and colonial bildung in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Gregory Castle
- "A faint glimmer of lesbianism" in Joyce / Colleen Lamos
- In the original sinse : the gay cliché and verbal transgression in Finnegans Wake / Christy Burns
- Beyond "syphilisation" : Finnegans Wake, aids, and the discourse of contagion / Marian Eide
- Paring his fingernails : homosexuality and Joyce's impersonalist aesthetic / Tim Dean
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Much of the most influential work on Joyce over the last decade has been devoted to the study of gender representation, performance, privilege, and anxiety. Among other results, this work has made the heterosexual imperative visible as an arbitrary ideological limit. Now, in Quare Joyce , some of the most prominent scholars of Joyce address themselves directly to questions of homoerotic desire in Joyce's work, drawing on and furthering queer theory in a dazzling set of essays. Beyond simply locating another layer of cultural import in Joyce's endlessly rich oeuvre, this project reconstructs a whole other creative and critical history for his writing. The twelve essays, organized in pairs under the headings ""Intersexualities,"" ""Rethinking the Closet,"" ""Homophobia and Misogyny,"" ""Homocolonial Relations,"" ""Joyce's Lesbian Other,"" and ""Recent Controversies,"" explore the range of Joyce's work, from ""An Encounter"" through Finnegans Wake , and take on three related tasks: to redress the compulsory heterosexuality that has traditionally hampered even the most sophisticated and progressive scholarship on Joyce; to import a queer theory perspective; and to take up the manifold question of homosexuality as it pertains to the always slippery articulation of Joyce's life and work. Quare Joyce will directly interest not only Joyceans, modernists, and students of Irish literature, but also scholars in the fields of postcolonial and queer theory, gay and cultural studies. As the only book on its subject, it will be necessary reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students and will prove useful in the classroom. Joseph Valente is Associate Professor of English and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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