Joyce, "Penelope" and the Body (European Joyce Studies 17) (European Joyce Studies)

'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. Content: Joyce's answer to philosophy : writing the dematerializing object / Christine van Boheemen-Saaf -- The body writing : Joyce's pen / Derek Attridge -- Molly inside and outside "Penelope" / Valérie Bénéjam -- Verbal or visual? : "Penelope" and contemporary psychology / John Smurthwaite -- Spinning with "Penelope" / Finn Fordham -- "Penelope" without the body / Maud Ellmann -- Body words / Richard Brown -- Jack the Ripper and the family physician : gynaecology and domestic medicine in "Penelope" / Vike Martina Plock -- "Indifferent weib" : Giordano Bruno and the heretical model of vision in "Penelope" / Gareth Joseph Downes -- From the confessional hole to the techno-erotic : "Penelope" and Finnegans wake / Andrew Norris -- Beyond masochistic ritual in Joyce and Deleuze : reading Molly as non-corporeal body / James Davies -- The geography of the body in "Penelope" / Paul O'Hanrahan. Edited By Richard Brown. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.