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Beating the Bounds - Excess and Restraint in Joyce's Later Works (Hardcover)
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Beating the Bounds - Excess and Restraint in Joyce's Later Works (Hardcover)
Series: The Florida James Joyce Series
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Exploring the role of boundaries and limits in the writing of James
Joyce Beating the Bounds examines the role of boundaries and limits
in James Joyce's later works, primarily Finnegans Wake but also
Ulyssesand other texts. Building on the ideas of philosophers
Friedrich Nietzsche, Giordano Bruno, and scholar Fritz Senn, Roy
Benjamin explains and reconciles Joyce's contrary tendencies to
establish and transgress limits. Benjamin begins by contrasting
Joyce's exploration of the artificial impositions of ritual and
political power with the writer's attention to natural boundaries
of rivers and mountains. The next section considers sexual,
spiritual, and interpersonal boundaries in the Wake. Benjamin then
discusses how Joyce simultaneously affirms and undermines the
limits of philosophy, geometry, and aesthetics. The final section
covers Joyce's representation of the boundaries imposed in
cosmogonic myths, the collision between the bounded medieval world
and the boundless world of modern science, and the drive to escape
from the boundaries of place. In this detailed and original
analysis, Benjamin demonstrates that in Joyce's writing, the
tendency to disintegrate into chaos is countered by an urge to
impose order. Benjamin's close readings put an abundance of
subjects in conversation through the concept of limits, showing the
Wake's relevance to many different fields of thought. A volume in
the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles.
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