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Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics, and Aesthetics in Ulysses de Andrew Gibson

Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics, and Aesthetics in Ulysses

Autor Andrew Gibson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 ian 2005

Analiza propusă de Andrew Gibson în Joyce's Revenge pornește de la studiile de caz ale discursurilor naționalismului cultural englez de la sfârșitul secolului al XIX-lea, demonstrând cum James Joyce le integrează și le subminează în Ulysses. Credem că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea de a ancora estetica modernistă în realitatea brutală a unei Irlande care, la data scrierii romanului, era încă parte integrantă a Marii Britanii. Autorul examinează tensiunea dintre voința de libertate și cea de dreptate, argumentând că opera lui Joyce nu este doar o inovație formală, ci un act de rezistență politică și o formă de „răzbunare” intelectuală asupra culturii colonizatorului.

Putem afirma că stilul lui Andrew Gibson este unul erudit, dar marcat de o claritate necesară în decriptarea contextului istoric 1880-1920. Această lucrare reprezintă o alternativă solidă la Semicolonial Joyce de Derek Attridge pentru cursurile de studii literare irlandeze sau postcolonialism, având avantajul unei focalizări stricte pe mecanismele prin care Ulysses transcende efectele dominației britanice. În comparație cu The Subaltern Ulysses de Enda Duffy, care explorează emergența națională, Gibson insistă pe nuanțele subtile ale discursului cultural englez contemporan cu Joyce.

În contextul operei sale, Joyce's Revenge se aliniază preocupărilor lui Gibson pentru raportul dintre literatură și structurile de putere, temă vizibilă și în J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture. Dacă în alte lucrări precum Intermittency autorul explorează concepte filozofice franceze, aici el revine la rădăcinile modernismului anglo-saxon, oferind o perspectivă istorică exhaustivă asupra modului în care marea literatură poate funcționa ca un instrument de eliberare națională și personală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199282036
ISBN-10: 019928203X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Este o resursă esențială pentru studenții și cercetătorii care doresc să înțeleagă substratul politic al lui Ulysses. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nouă asupra modului în care Joyce a folosit estetica pentru a replica presiunii coloniale britanice. Recomandăm această carte pentru rigoarea cu care Andrew Gibson demonstrează că modernismul nu a fost o evadare din istorie, ci o confruntare directă și ingenioasă cu aceasta.

Despre autor

Andrew Gibson este profesor de literatură modernă și teorie literară la Royal Holloway, University of London. Este o figură marcantă în studiile joyceene și un specialist recunoscut în teoria postcolonială și filosofia contemporană. Expertiza sa se extinde de la analiza operelor lui James Joyce și J.M. Coetzee până la studiul filozofilor francezi recenți. Prin lucrările sale, Gibson explorează intersecția dintre estetică, politică și istorie, oferind interpretări critice care recalibrează înțelegerea canonului modernist în raport cu structurile socio-economice globale.

Descriere

The Ireland of Ulysses was still a part of Britain. This book is the first comprehensive, historical study of Joyce's great novel in the context of Anglo-Irish political and cultural relations in the period 1880-1920. The first forty years of Joyce's life also witnessed the emergence of what historians now call English cultural nationalism. This formation was perceptible in a wide range of different discourses. Ulysses engages with many of them. In doing so, it resists, transforms, and works to transcend the effects of British rule in Ireland. The novel was written in the years leading up to Irish independence. It is powered by both a will to freedom and a will to justice. But the two do not always coincide, and Joyce does not place his art in the service of any existing political cause. His struggle for independence has its own distinctive mode. The result is a unique work of liberation - and revenge.

Recenzii

[a] superb study ... It is hard to pay sufficient tribute to Gibson's keenly detailed research and grasp of nuance in his discussion ... Joyce's Revenge deserves to become one of the landmarks in criticism devoted to Ulysses. Several chapters alone are worth the price of the book ... Shaprly and lucidly written, his book is accessible to readers who are not Joyce critics.
Andrew Gibson has written a book to be mined for decades to come for its unqiue historicaL insight, its extraordinary attention to detail and its powerful theoretical grasp. Joyce's Revenge is the kind of rare book one compulsively recommends to students and friends.
Andrew Gibson's is easily one of the most serious of academic books to have appeared on Joyce in recent years. It is densely researched, full of ideas, and well-embedded in current academic questions, and is sure to become a familiar point of reference in future debates as well as a standard to which subsequent researchers will have to aspire.
Review from previous edition The book's achievement and its considerable claim on the reader's attention arise from two virtues: the consistency of the interpretative perspective from chapter to chapter and the abundance of eye-opening, contextualizing historical detail. Many readers will learn a great deal about the Irish contexts of Joyce's writing, from the Great Famine until the early 1920s, though the book's primary focus is the period 1880-1920. Even readers who are historically well-informed are unlikely to have anticipated Gibson's deft evocations of Joyce's transformations of contradictory perspectives.
Joyce's Revenge makes a significant and distinctive contribution to Joyce studies, and it deserves a wide readership. The author is impressively well read in English and Irish cultural history, and the book identifies and explores an aspect of this history about which most Joyceans, perhaps, know less than they might. Among the books on Joyce I've studied recently this is perhaps the most absorbing read, cover to cover, of all of them.
This thought-provoking study makes a significant and highly original contribution to scholarship on Ulysses ... a particular strength of this book is the way in which it seeks to interpret the aesthetic of Ulysses as a whole, rather than focusing on a few key features or episodes.
Joyce's Revenge splendidly serves to show us how significant is a scrutiny of the intertwined history of Britain and Ireland for understanding the radical aesthetics of Ulysses. This is a book that will keep Joyce scholars busy, and rightly so, for some time to come.
The true distinction of Joyce's Revenge lies in its density. This comes in two forms: intellectual and historical. Every page in this book feels hard-won; every argument is sophisticated enough to include a host of variations, or a sequence of counter-arguments. There is almost a hint of Hegel or Adorno in Gibson's thought, the unremitting intensity with which a position is carried through in all its exemplification, then inverted with equal rigour.
Gibson's detailed reading of Ulysses against the background of its intertextual archive provides highly revealing and often surprising insights into Joyce's deconstructive representation of the ideological forces at work both in England and Ireland. Joyce's Revenge combines a masterly analytical approach with a supreme grasp of theory, intellectual rigour and a convincing power of persuasion. Among the many books on our shelves produced by the Joyce industry, Gibson's will figure among the first things to read on Ulysses.
Gibson's book presents a convincing and fruitful method to interpret Ulysses. It also - unlike many students of Joyce - takes Joyce seriously as both a thinker and an artist ... The worth of any theory is not in its cleverness but in its explanatory value. On this basis Gibson's book is a success and a most refreshing one.
The arrival of this book is a welcome occasion. Andrew Gibson combines a wealth of knowledge and research - about the particularities of English and Irish cultural politics between 1880 and 1920 - with an admirable sensitivity to the Joycean text. The book has much to do with what postcolonial theory calls 'hybridity' and 'mimicry', but is also densely and precisely historicized. Like the simultaneously meticulous, informed, and irreverent Joyce he describes, Gibson is scrupulous about historical particularity and cunning in his application of it. Joyce's Revenge immerses itself in a broad range of specific cultural discourses on subjects from nationalist politics to medical debates to the politics of street names, the politics of Shakespeare and bardolatry, Protestant-Catholic relations, Jewishness, Irish historiography, women's journals, and astronomy. The result is an important new study that will alter the ways we read Ulysses.

Notă biografică

Andrew Gibson is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London.