Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce / Edition 1

by Christine Froula

Overview

A study of the work of James Joyce, by feminist scholar Christine Froula, this work is a reading of his critique of the origins and workings of gender in Western culture. It sees Joyce's work as largely self-diagnostic, seeking to discover the masculine psyche of Western culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231104432
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	07/25/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Argues that James Joyce uses the figure of the artist to transform the perversity he is often accused of into a critique of the culture he both embodies and resists. Especially focuses on the authority wielded over sexuality and gender not only by the church, state, and socioeconomic marriage system, but also by the psychosexual underworld of phantasmic mother/whores, and the symbolic estate of arts and letters. Finds in his three best known novels initiation, quest, and origin myth. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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