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The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered
About this book
To many, James Joyce is simply the greatest novelist of the twentieth century. Scholars have pored over every minutia of his public and private life from utility bills to deeply personal letters in search of new insights into his life and work. Yet, for the most part, they have paid scant attention to the two volumes of poetry he published.
The nine contributors to The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsideredconvincingly challenge the critical consensus that Joyce's poetry is inferior to his prose. They reveal how his poems provide entries into Joyce's most personal and intimate thoughts and ideas. They also demonstrate that Joyce's poetic explorations--of the nature of knowledge, sexual intimacy, the changing quality of love, the relations between writing and music, and the religious dimensions of the human experience--were fundamental to his development as a writer of prose.
This exciting new work is sure to spark new interest in Joyce's poetry, and will become an essential and indispensable resource for students and scholars of his life and work.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered
- 2. Reading Joyce’s Poetry against the Rest of the Canon
- 3. The Unconsortable Joyce: Chamber Music
- 4. Verse after Verlaine, Rime after Rimbaud: Joyce and the “poisondart” of Chamber Music
- 5. “That high unconsortable one”: Chamber Music and “A Painful Case”
- 6. “After Music”: Chamber Music, Song, and the Blank Page
- 7. Joyce’s Poetics of Knowledge
- 8. Orpheus Rebound: The Voice of Lament in Joyce’s Poetic Consciousness
- 9. Bleeding from the “Torn Bough”: Challenging Nature in James Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach
- List of Abbreviations
- Works Cited
- List of Contributors
- Index