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Book SynopsisIn this revolutionary work, Margot Norris proposes that Joyce’s art critiques modernism’s fundamental concept of the artist as martyr to bourgeois sensibilities by revealing an awareness of the artist’s connections to and constraints within bourgeois soci
Trade Review"There is no question that Professor Norris' book will constitute a significant contribution to the field...some of the finest, most politically sensitive and informed feminist criticism yet published on Joyce. ... it will have a major impact on the field of Joyce studies ... " Vicki Mahaffey, associate professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I. The Artist
- Chapter 1. Textual Raveling: A Critical and Theoretical Introduction
- 1. Joycean Canonization and Modernism
- 2. Joyce, Feminism, and the Ideologically Self-Critical Text
- 3. Intertexted Weavings
- Chapter 2. Patronage and Censorship: The Production of Art in the Social Real
- 1. Patronage as Communist “Grace”
- 2. Ibsen, Censorship, and Art!’s Social Function in Stephen Hero
- Chapter 3. Stephen Dedalus, Oscar Wilde, and the Art of Lying
- Chapter 4. “Shem the Penman”: Joyce’s Tenemental Text
- 1. Cranly, Materialism, and Art
- 2. Shem as Béte Noire of Modernism
- Part II. The Women
- Chapter 5. “Who Killed Julia Morkan?”: The Gender Politics of Art in “The Dead”
- 1. Stifled Back Answers
- 2. The Woman as Objet d’Art
- 3. Woman as the Other Woman
- 4. Songs, Romance, and the Social Real
- 5. The Silencing of Female Art
- Chapter 6. Narration under a Blindfold: Reading the “Patch” of “Clay”
- Chapter 7. The Work Song of the Washerwomen in “Anna 139 Livia Plurabelle”
- 1. Samuel Butler and the Desublimation of Myth
- 2. The Social Politics of Washerwomen in History
- 3. Washerwomen’s Working Talk
- 4. Ablution and Absolution
- Chapter 8. Modernism, Myth, and Desire in “Nausicaa”
- Part III. The Children
- Chapter 9. The Politics of Childhood in “The Mime of Mick, Nick, and the Maggies”
- 1. Tea Parties
- 2. Exile
- 3. Home
- Notes
- Works Consulted
- Index
