Joyce’s Non-Fiction Writings: "Outside His Jurisfiction"

Joyce’s Non-Fiction Writings: "Outside His Jurisfiction"
ISBN-10
3319722425
ISBN-13
9783319722429
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
230
Language
English
Published
2018-05-02
Publisher
Springer
Authors
James Alexander Fraser, Katherine Ebury

Description

This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyce’s non-fictional writings. Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped scholarly approaches to these works for over half a century, showing that non-fiction as a categorical distinction, no matter how sensible it appears, crumbles under closer inspection. Bringing into conversation a group of key Joyce scholars, this volume acts not only as a vital reimagining of our critical relationship to Joyce’s non-fiction, but as a contribution to similar debates being carried out across the broad range of modernist studies.

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