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Joyce/Foucault: Sexual Confessions
Wolfgang Streit
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Sheds new light on James Joyce's use of sexual motifs as cultural raw material for Ulysses and other works
Joyce/Foucault: Sexual Confessions examines instances of sexual confession in works of James Joyce, with a special emphasis on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. Using Michel Foucault's historical analysis of Western sexuality as its theoretical underpinning, the book foregrounds the role of the Jesuit order in the spread of a confessional force, and finds this influence inscribed into Joyce's major texts. Wolfgang Streit goes on to argue that the tension between the texts' erotic passages and ... Read more
Wolfgang Streit is Lecturer, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472110001
SKU
V9780472110001
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99-15
About Wolfgang Streit
Wolfgang Streit is Lecturer, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.
Reviews for Joyce/Foucault: Sexual Confessions
"Absolutely original and excellently researched, this combination of a Foucauldian analysis with genetic perspectives reveals an aspect of Joyce's oeuvre that has not yet received sufficient critical attention." —Geert Lernout, University of Antwerp