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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag minimal berieben, au�rdem kleinere Verschmutzungen, Buchr�cken des Schutzumschlags ausgeblichen, innen sauber und gut / dust jacket minimally rubbed, also minor soiling, spine of dust jacket faded, inside clean and good. - James Joyce has long been viewed as a literary modernist who helped define and uphold modernism�s fundamental concepts of the artist as martyr to bourgeois sensibilities and of an idealistic faith in artistic freedom. In this revolutionary work, however, Margot Norris proposes that Joyce�s art actually critiques these modernist tenets by revealing an awareness of the artist�s connections to and constraints within bourgeois society. In sections organized around three mythologized and aestheticized figures in Joyce�s works�artist, woman, and child� Norris� readings �unravel the web�� of Joyce�s early and late stories, novels, and experimental texts. She shows how Joyce�s texts employ multiple mechanisms to expose their own distortions, silences, and lies and reveal connections between art and politics, and art and society. In this feminist and materialist reading, Joyce�s texts yield the history of their own socially produced and socially constrained genesis in Irish colonialism and lower-class poverty, in reputable and disreputable fundraising and patronage, and in censorship and amateur publishing. This ambitious new reading not only repositions Joyce within contemporary debates about the ideological assumptions behind modernism and postmodernism, but also urges reconsideration of the phenomenon of modernism itself. It will be of interest and importance to all literary scholars. / 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 B� 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 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. ISBN 9780292765375