James Joyce, Ulysses, and the construction of Jewish identity : culture, biography, and "the Jew" in modernist Europe
New biographical material suggests that 'the Jew' was a dynamic aspect of James Joyce's imagination from youth to adulthood. A detailed reading of Ulysses shows how Joyce uses his fiction to confront the controversy of 'race,' and the contradictions of anti-Semitism in pre-Holocaust Europe.
Print Book, English, 1998
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998
Biographies
xviii, 305 pages ; 23 cm
9780521636209, 0521636205
226211186
Foreword: Anthony Julius
Introduction
Silence: family values
Silence: Jesuit years: Clongowes and Belvedere
Silence: university years: the Church, Dreyfus, and aesthetics
Exile: excursion to the Continent, bitter return
Cunning and exile: Greeks and Jews
Cunning: Jews and the Continent: texts and subtexts
Cunning: the miracle of Lazarus times two: Joyce and Italo Svevo
Ulysses
Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index
Originally published: 1996