Title Joyce's revenge : history, politics, and aesthetics in Ulysses / Andrew Gibson

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) Contents Patiens ingemiscit : Stephen Dedalus, Ireland, and history -- Only a foreigner would do : Leopold Bloom, Ireland, and Jews -- Gentle will is being roughly handled : 'Scylla and Charybdis' -- A look around : 'wandering rocks' -- History, all that : 'Sirens', 'Cyclops' -- Waking up in Ireland : 'Nausicaa' -- An Irish bull in an English Chinashop : 'oxen of the sun' -- Strangers in my house, bad manners to them! : 'Circe' -- Mingle mangle or gallimaufry : 'Eumaeus' -- An aberration of the light of reason : 'Ithaca' -- The end of all resistance : 'Penelope' Summary The Ireland of Ulysses was still a part of Britain. This book is the first comprehensive, historical study of Joyce's great novel in the context of Anglo-Irish political and cultural relations in the period 1880-1920. The first forty years of Joyce's life also witnessed the emergence of what historians now call English cultural nationalism. This formation was perceptible in a wide range of different discourses. Ulysses engages with many of them. In doing so, it resists, transforms and works to transcend the effects of British rule in Ireland. The novel was written in the years leading up to Irish independence. It is powered by both a will to freedom and a will to justice. But the two do not always coincide, and Joyce does not place his art in the service of any extant political cause. His struggle for independence has its own distinctive mode. The result is a unique work of liberation - and revenge. This eminently learned but lucidly written book transforms our understanding of Joyce's Ulysses. It does so by placing the novel firmly in the historical context of Anglo-Irish political and cultural relations in the period 1880-1920.; Gibson argues that Ulysses is a great work of liberation that also takes a complex form of revenge on the colonizer's culture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-298) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses. Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Political and social views Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Aesthetics SUBJECT Joyce, James, 1882-1941 fast Joyce, James 1882-1941 Ulysses gnd Joyce, James. Ulysses. swd Ulysses (Joyce, James) fast Subject Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century Literature and history -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Aesthetics International relations Literature Literature and history Political and social views Politics and literature Kolonialismus Ulysses (Joyce) Nationalisme. Kolonialisme. Postkolonialisme. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Relations -- Ireland Ireland -- Relations -- Great Britain Ireland -- In literature Subject Great Britain Ireland Gro©britannien. Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland. Ierland. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0585486239 9780585486239 1280375043 9781280375040 0191541885 9780191541889

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