Ulysses Quotīdiānus : James Joyce's inverse histories of the everyday
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Ulysses Quotīdiānus : James Joyce's inverse histories of the everyday
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-334) and index
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This book presents a multi-pronged inverse historical analysis of Joyce's high-modernist magnum opus Ulysses, foregrounding the historicity of its unapologetic subject matter - the quotidian. It argues that the everyday life depicted in Ulysses espouses alternative historical trajectories neglected by traditional historiographic paradigms, which largely deal with great personages and momentous events. The sphere of ordinary life is also where lasting changes must be accomplished if transformations are to happen at all in what gets written or accepted as a posteriori 'history.' Across eight elaborate chapters, the book reconstructs quotidian 'micro-histories' surrounding work and income, material objects and practices, everyday relationships, body and health, ideologies and power, socio-psychological resources, and, in one of the many internal heterogenizations of the everyday, gender issues.
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