James joyce and samaritan hospitality: postcritical and postsecular reading in dubliners and ulysses (109,803)

James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality reads Dubliners and Ulysses through studies of hospitality, particularly that articulated in the Lukan parable of the Good Samaritan. It traces the origins of the novel in part to the physical attacks on Joyce in 1904 Dublin and 1907 Rome, showing how these incidents and the parable were incorporated into his short story ‘Grace’ and throughout Ulysses , especially its last four episodes. Richard Rankin Russell discusses the rich theory of hospitality developed by Joyce and demonstrates that he sought to make us more charitable readers through his explorations and depictions of Samaritan hospitality. Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Haunted by Hospitality in “The Dead” 2 Joyce, Scripture, and Autobiographical Rescue Narratives 3 Rewriting the Good Samaritan Parable: The Fictional Rescue Narratives of “Grace” and “Circe” 4 Bloom as Stranger and Samaritan in “Cyclops,” “Oxen of the Sun,” and “Circe” 5 “In orthodox Samaritan fashion”: The Parabolic Encounter between Stephen and Bloom in “Eumaeus” 6 Home to “Ithaca” and “Penelope”: Bloom’s Hospitality and Stephen and Molly’s Reactions 7 Enfleshed Ethics and the Responsibility of the Reader in the Good Samaritan Parable and the “Nostos” of Ulysses Coda: “Go thou and do likewise”: Postcritical and Postsecular Reading through a Joycean Hermeneutics of Hospitality Works Cited Index