Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity

Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity
Author: Thomas Jackson Rice
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780252065835

Thomas Rice compellingly argues that James Joyce's work resists postmodernist approaches of ambiguity: Joyce never abandoned his conviction that reality exists, regardless of the human ability to represent it. Placing Joyce in his cultural context, Rice first traces the influence of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries on Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He then demonstrates that, when later innovations in science transformed entire worldviews, Joyce recognized conventional literary modes of representation as offering only arbitrary constructions of this reality. Joyce responded in Ulysses by experimenting with perspective, embedding design, and affirming the existence of reality. Rice contends that Ulysses presages the multiple tensions of chaos theory; likewise, chaos theory can serve as a model for understanding Ulysses. In Finnegans Wake Joyce consummates his vision and anticipates the theories of complexity science through a dynamic approximation of reality.

Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History

Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History
Author: Christine van Boheemen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1999-09-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139426516

In Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History, Christine van Boheemen-Saaf examines the relationship between Joyce's postmodern textuality and the traumatic history of colonialism in Ireland. Joyce's influence on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Derrida's philosophy, Van Boheemen-Saaf suggests, ought to be viewed from a postcolonial perspective. She situates Joyce's writing as a practice of indirect 'witnessing' to a history that remains unspeakable. The loss of a natural relationship to language in Joyce calls for a new ethical dimension in the process of reading. The practice of reading becomes an act of empathy to what the text cannot express in words. In this way, she argues, Joyce's work functions as a material location for the inner voice of Irish cultural memory. This book engages with a wide range of contemporary critical theory and brings Joyce's work into dialogue with thinkers such as Zizek, Adorno, Lyotard, as well as feminism and postcolonial theory.

Joyce's Book of Memory

Joyce's Book of Memory
Author: John S. Rickard
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1999-01-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780822321705

DIVDiscusses Ulysses arguing that through the operation of memory, it mimics the working of the human mind and achieves its status as one of the most intellectual achievements of the 20th century./div

The Myth of Morality

The Myth of Morality
Author: Richard Joyce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2001-11-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139430939

In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. Joyce argues that natural selection is to blame, in that it has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that it does not contain, and demands that it does not make. Should we therefore do away with morality, as we did away with other faulty notions such as witches? Possibly not. We may be able to carry on with morality as a 'useful fiction' - allowing it to have a regulative influence on our lives and decisions, perhaps even playing a central role - while not committing ourselves to believing or asserting falsehoods, and thus not being subject to accusations of 'error'.

Post-Structuralist Joyce

Post-Structuralist Joyce
Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1985-01-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521319799

This volume is devoted to translations of some of the most significant criticism of James Joyce to have appeared in French journals over the last twenty, years. Joyce has been a great stimulus for new modes of theoretical and critical inquiry in France, which have in turn exerted a profound influence on the intellectual climate both in the UK and in North America. In their shared preoccupations with the mechanisms of textuality and the implications thereof for the writing-and-reading subject, all the contributors to this volume, who include Hélène Cixous, Jacques Aubert, JeanMichel Rabaté, André Topia and Jacques Derrida, form part of the movement away from the structuralism that dominated intellectual discussion in the 1960s to what is now called (though not in France itself), 'post-structuralism'.

Joyce Effects

Joyce Effects
Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2000-03-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521777889

This is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce.

Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas

Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas
Author: Fran O'Rourke
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-04-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813072239

A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce In this book, Fran O’Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author’s oeuvre. O’Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was a philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the reliability of knowledge. Beginning with an introduction to each thinker, the book traces Joyce’s discovery of their works and his concrete engagement with their thought. Aristotle and Aquinas equipped Joyce with fundamental principles regarding reality, knowledge, and the soul, which allowed him to shape his literary characters. Joyce appropriated Thomistic concepts to elaborate an original and personal aesthetic theory. O’Rourke provides an annotated commentary on quotations from Aristotle that Joyce entered into his famous Early Commonplace Book and outlines their crucial significance for his writings. He also provides an authoritative evaluation of Joyce’s application of Aquinas’s aesthetic principles. The first book to comprehensively illuminate the profound impact of both the ancient and medieval thinker on the modernist writer, Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas offers readers a rich understanding of the intellectual background and philosophical underpinnings of Joyce’s work. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles

The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory

The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory
Author: James M. Joyce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1999-04-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780521641647

The book also contains a major new discussion of what it means to suppose that some event occurs or that some proposition is true.

Joyce and Lacan

Joyce and Lacan
Author: Daniel Bristow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317383397

What happens when the intellectual giant of twentieth-century literature, James Joyce, is made an object of consideration and cause of desire by the intellectual giant of modern psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan? This is what Joyce and Lacan explores, in the three closely interrelated areas of reading, writing, and psychoanalysis, by delving into Joyce’s own relationship with psychoanalysis in his lifetime. The book concentrates primarily on his last text, Finnegans Wake, the notorious difficulty of which arises from its challenging the intellect itself, and our own processes of reading. As well as the centrality of the Wake, concepts of Joycean ontology, sanity, singularity, and sexuality are excavated from sustained analysis of his earliest writings onward. To be ‘post-Joycean’, as Lacan describes it, means then to be in the wake not only of Joyce, but also of Lacan’s interventions on the Irish writer made in the mid-70s. It was this encounter that gave rise to concepts that have gained currency in today’s psychoanalytic theory and practice, and importance in wider critical contexts. The notions of the sinthome, lalangue, and Lacan’s use of topology and knot theory are explored within, as well as new theories being launched. The book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and students and teachers of literature, theory, or the works of Joyce and Lacan.

Quare Joyce

Quare Joyce
Author: Joseph Valente
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780472086894

The first sustained analysis of the place of homoeroticism in Joyce's cultural politics