James Joyce and the politics of egoism /

In James Joyce and the politics of egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of "egoism". This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, "hospitality", a term Rabaté un...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949-
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Subjects:	Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Political and social views. Politics and literature > Ireland > History > 20th century. Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Views on egoism. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Ethics. Modernism (Literature) > Ireland. Hospitality in literature. Egoism in literature. Self in literature. Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Après le mot, le déluge : the ego as symptom
The ego, the nation and degeneration
Joyce the egoist
The aesthetic paradoxes of egoism: from egoism to the theoretic
Theory's slice of life
The egoist and the king
The conquest of Paris
Joyce's transitional revolution
Hospitality and sodomy
Textual hospitality in the 'capital city'
Joyce's late modernism and the birth of the genetic reader
Stewardism, Parnellism and egotism.