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James Joyce and Sexuality
Richard Brown
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Description for James Joyce and Sexuality
Hardback. A highly original exploration of Joyce's engagement with sexual questions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 394. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear, remains a fine copy
This highly original study seeks to correct the critical misapprehension that James Joyce was a figure who remained aloof and disengaged from the intellectual and social concerns of his time. By exploring Joyce's interest in sexual questions, Dr Brown shows that, on the contrary, his work represents a more complex and subtle kind of engagement with such concerns. There are four main areas of interest. The first is Joyce's extensive reading on the question of marriage and its impact on his work, a subject invested with greater interest through Joyce's elopement with and delayed marriage to Nora Barnacle. The second ... Read more
This highly original study seeks to correct the critical misapprehension that James Joyce was a figure who remained aloof and disengaged from the intellectual and social concerns of his time. By exploring Joyce's interest in sexual questions, Dr Brown shows that, on the contrary, his work represents a more complex and subtle kind of engagement with such concerns. There are four main areas of interest. The first is Joyce's extensive reading on the question of marriage and its impact on his work, a subject invested with greater interest through Joyce's elopement with and delayed marriage to Nora Barnacle. The second ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521248112
SKU
KSG0016013
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99-1
Reviews for James Joyce and Sexuality
'James Joyce and Sexuality is a work of remarkable intelligence, and should serve as guide to any young Joycean on how to write on Joyce, how to conceptualise all facets of a particular aspect, how to use quotations for full elucidation, how to balance thought and language.' Irish Literary Supplement '[Richard Brown's] study of sources, politics, biography and aesthetics may ... Read more