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OverviewPart of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that country but they durst not move more for enchantment.” How might we learn to regain some of the child-like play with language and sense of delight in the ordinary that comes so naturally to Joyce? The Joyce of Everyday Life teaches us how to interpret seemingly mundane objects and encounters with openness and active curiosity in order to attain greater self-understanding and a fuller appreciation of others. Through a close examination of Joyce's joyous, musical prose, it shows how language provides us with the means to revitalize daily experience and social interactions across a huge, diverse, everchanging world. Acclaimed Joyce scholar Vicki Mahaffey demonstrates how his writing might prompt us to engage in a different kind of reading, treating words and fiction as tools for expanding the boundaries of the self with humor and feeling. A book for everyone who loves language, The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Vicki MahaffeyPublisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Imprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.367kg ISBN: 9781684485260ISBN 10: 1684485266 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 30 September 2024 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""A brilliant, lively guide to the joys of reading Joyce for intellectual stimulation and personal growth. With characteristic verve and lucidity, Mahaffey reminds us how Joyce’s words make us come alive to life and language as we glimpse ourselves in his nicely polished mirrors. Both new and veteran readers will benefit from Mahaffey's deep, witty engagements with Joyce’s fictions."" -- Robert Spoo * author of Modernism and the Law * “An ode to the necessity for interpretive autonomy, Vicki Mahaffey’s The Joyce of Everyday Life joyfully explores the networks and coincidences and echoes and repetitions of James Joyce’s texts. Where other literary critics tell what a book is about, Mahaffey shows readers how to move through Joyce’s language. They could not have a better guide."" -- Katherine O’Callaghan * editor of Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature: Musical Modernism * ""At once a primer for reading Joyce and a parallactic rereading of familiar places in Joyce’s work. It is also a model of great reading and writing, eloquently conveying a practice of encounter, as its title suggests, with everyday subjects such as beds, love, fat, letters of all kinds, etc., through which Mahaffey brings Joyce down from the rarefied air. The book is rich with critical surprises. Don’t miss them.” -- Marilyn Reizbaum * author of Unfit: Jewish Degeneration and Modernism * “Mahaffey shows that there is much to be learned about everyday life in Joyce’s fiction. However, Joyce does not drop chestnuts of wisdom for readers along a primrose path. Instead, he forges trails of potential self-discovery through a dense and thorny thicket of words. Mahaffey is the perfect guide to the rich forms of everyday self-reflection available to readers when navigating the language of Joyce’s selva oscura.” -- David Rando * author of Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce *" Author InformationVICKI MAHAFFEY is a professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and the author or editor of several books, including Collaborative Dubliners: Joyce in Dialogue, Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions, and States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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