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Joyce, “Penelope” and the Body.
BROWN, Richard (Ed.)
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2006, 204 pp.
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Series:
European Joyce Studies 17
Joyce, “Penelope” and the Body is a collection of twelve essays about “Penelope”, the famous final episode of Joyce’s Ulysses in relation to contemporary literary, cultural, philosophical and psychoanalytical theories of the body. As such it offers an unusually close look at that episode itself and it also becomes the very first book on Joyce that takes the idea of the body as its announced central theme. The contributors represented here come from England, Ireland, Europe and North America and they include some of the best established critics of Joyce alongside newcomers to academic publication. The essays include an encouraging diversity of approaches but they have in common a marked intellectual ambition, a surprisingly fresh and innovative approach and above all a devoted fascination for Joyce’s text. Taken together they offer much new potential for the reading of Joyce and Modernism and a range of possibilities for understanding the body and its representation through language and in culture that have resonances across the cultural sphere.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Bibliographical Note
Richard BROWN: Introduction
Christine van BOHEEMEN-SAAF: Joyce’s Answer to Philosophy: Writing the Dematerializing Object
Derek ATTRIDGE: The Body Writing: Joyce’s Pen
Valérie BÉNÉJAM: Molly Inside and Outside “Penelope”
John SMURTHWAITE : Verbal or Visual?: “Penelope” and Contemporary Psychology
Finn FORDHAM: Spinning with “Penelope”
Maud ELLMANN: “Penelope” Without the Body
Richard BROWN: Body Words
Vike MARTINA PLOCK: Jack the Ripper and the Family Physician: Gynaecology and Domestic Medicine in “Penelope”
Gareth JOSEPH DOWNES: “Indifferent Weib”: Giordano Bruno and the Heretical Mode of Vision in “Penelope”
Andrew NORRIS: From the Confessional Hole to the Techno-Erotic: “Penelope” and Finnegans Wake
James DAVIES: Beyond Masochistic Ritual in Joyce and Deleuze: Reading Molly as Non-Corporeal Body
Paul O’HANRAHAN: The Geography of the Body in “Penelope”
Contributors
Index
Richard Brown is Reader in Modern Literature in the University of Leeds the author of James Joyce and Sexuality (Cambridge) and James Joyce: A Postculturalist Perspective (Palgrave, reprinted 2005). He co-founded in 1980 and co-edits the James Joyce Broadsheet, currently serves as Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation and has written widely on James Joyce and on such contemporary writers as Paul Muldoon, Ian McEwan and Bob Dylan.
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