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Author Davison, Neil R

Title James Joyce, Ulysses, and the construction of Jewish identity : culture, biography, and "the Jew" in modernist Europe / Neil R. Davison
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 305 pages)
Contents Foreword: Anthony Julius -- Introduction -- Silence: family values -- Silence: Jesuit years: Clongowes and Belvedere -- Silence: university years: the Church, Dreyfus, and aesthetics -- Exile: excursion to the Continent, bitter return -- Cunning and exile: Greeks and Jews -- Cunning: Jews and the Continent: texts and subtexts -- Cunning: the miracle of Lazarus times two: Joyce and Italo Svevo -- Ulysses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Representations of 'the Jew' have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies. Neil Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious and political discourse about 'the Jew' forms a unifying component of his career. Davison offers new biographical material, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses showing how Joyce draws on Christian folklore, Dreyfus Affair propaganda, Sinn Fein politics, and theories of Jewish sexual perversion and financial conspiracy. Throughout, Joyce confronts the controversy of 'race', the psychology of internalised stereotype, and the contradictions of fin-de-siècle anti-Semitism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index
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Subject Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Religion
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Characters -- Jews
SUBJECT Joyce, James, 1882-1941 fast
Bloom, Leopold (Fictitious character) fast
Ulysses (Joyce, James) fast
Subject Jews in literature.
Antisemitism -- History -- 20th century
Bloom, Leopold (Fictitious character)
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Novelists, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Antisemitism
Jews in literature
Novelists, Irish
Religion
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585000514
9780585000510
0511000650
9780511000652
9780521551816
0521551811