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Joyce through Lacan and Žižek

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  • © 2008

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Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Introduction: Exploring Freedom through Language

  2. The Revolitionary Portrait of the Artist

  3. Ulysses Off Course

  4. Finnegans Wake as the World

  5. Conclusion and Supplement: Exploration and Comedy

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Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform.

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"[A] hugely enjoyable book...The expanding universe of Zizekian interpretation opens up to the judicious critic who, armed with Brivic's great knowledge of all things Joycean, can re-launch the sinthome, now freed from its cryptic vault and able to address many aspects of Joycean experience." - The James Joyce Quarterly

About the author

SHELLY BRIVIC is Professor of English, Temple University, USA.

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