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Joyce as Theory - Hermeneutic Ethics in Derrida, Lacan, and Finnegans Wake (Hardcover)
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Joyce as Theory - Hermeneutic Ethics in Derrida, Lacan, and Finnegans Wake (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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Joyce as Theory is the first study to argue James Joyce can be read
as a theorist. Joyce is not just a favourite case study of literary
theory; he wrote about how we make meaning, and to what effect. The
present volume traces his hermeneutics in those narratives in
Finnegans Wake which deal with textual production and
interpretation, showing that the Wake's difficulty exemplifies
Joyce's theoretical stance. All reading involves responding to
problems we cannot quite fathom. This preoccupation places Joyce
alongside Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan. Joyce as Theory
revives debates on theory with a linguistic focus, laying open
misconceptions that have muddled attempts to be over and done with
this kind of thought. It demonstrates that Derrida and Lacan,
almost exclusively presented as rivals, converge on a common
position. It opposes the myth of linguistic theory as a formalist
approach, instead showing that Joyce, Derrida, and Lacan give us a
hermeneutic ethics alert to how meaning-making impacts our lived
experience. And it challenges the notion that theory imposes
matters alien to Joyce, demonstrating that it is an appreciation of
Joyce's arguments in Finnegans Wake that generates a theoretical
perspective. Joyce as Theory is essential reading for researchers
and students in Joyce studies, continental philosophy, literary
theory, and modernist literature.
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