Joyce writing disability

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    • Colangelo, Jeremy
    • Linett, Maren Tova

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Joyce writing disability

edited by Jeremy Colangelo; foreword by Maren Linett

(Florida James Joyce series)

University Press of Florida, 2022, ©2022

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "In this book, the first to explore the role of disability in the writings of James Joyce, contributors examine the varying ways in which Joyce's texts represent disability and the environmental conditions of his time that stigmatized, isolated, and othered individuals with disabilities"-- Provided by publisher

Summary: "In this book, the first to explore the role of disability in the writings of James Joyce, contributors approach the subject both on a figurative level, as a symbol or metaphor in Joyce's work, and also as a physical reality for many of Joyce's characters. Contributors examine the varying ways in which Joyce's texts represent disability and the environmental conditions of his time that stigmatized, isolated, and othered individuals with disabilities.The collection demonstrates the centrality of the body and embodiment in Joyce's writings, from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Essays address Joyce's engagement with paralysis, masculinity, childhood violence, trauma, disorderly eating, blindness, nineteenth-century theories of degeneration, and the concept of "madness."Together, the essays offer examples of Joyce's interest in the complexities of human existence and in challenging assumptions about bodily and mental norms. Complete with an introductio

Contents of Works

  • Introduction: Disability Writing Joyce / Jeremy Colangelo
  • Two Sides of Hemiplegia: On the Affect of Paralysis in Dubliners / Jeremy Colangelo
  • "Limping and Devious": The Disabled Male Body in "A Mother" / Casey Lawrence
  • When the Personal Becomes Historical: Portrait and the Textual Memory of Childhood Trauma / Boriana Alexandrova
  • Debility as Disability: Disorderly Eating in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Kathleen Morrissey
  • "Dark Men in Mien and Movement": Blindness and the Body in Ulysses / Rafael Hernandez
  • Degeneration, Decadence, and Joyce's Modernist Disability Aesthetics / Marion Quirici
  • Boulez, Cage, and the Disabled Wake / John Morey
  • Joyce, Swift, and the "Creep o'er Skull" of the Gods / Giovanna Vincenti
  • The Anti-Erasure of Lucia Joyce: Resignification of Mad Histories in Finnegans Wake / Jennifer Marchisotto

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In this book, the first to explore the role of disability in the writings of James Joyce, contributors approach the subject both on a figurative level, as a symbol or metaphor in Joyce's work, and also as a physical reality for many of Joyce's characters. Contributors examine the varying ways in which Joyce's texts represent disability and the environmental conditions of his time that stigmatized, isolated, and othered individuals with disabilities. The collection demonstrates the centrality of the body and embodiment in Joyce's writings, from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Essays address Joyce's engagement with paralysis, masculinity, childhood violence, trauma, disorderly eating, blindness, nineteenth-century theories of degeneration, and the concept of "madness." Together, the essays offer examples of Joyce's interest in the complexities of human existence and in challenging assumptions about bodily and mental norms. Complete with an introduction that summarizes key disability studies concepts and the current state of research on the subject in Joyce studies, this volume is a valuable resource for disability scholars interested in modernist literature and an ideal starting point for any Joycean new to the study of disability.

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