Beating the bounds : excess and restraint in Joyce's later works / Roy Benjamin.
| Author/creator | Benjamin, Roy author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2023] |
| Description | x, 249 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Excess and restraint in Joyce's later works |
| Series | The Florida James Joyce series Florida James Joyce series. ^A360937 |
| Contents | Riding the Franchises -- Partitioned Irskaholm -- The Mountain and River System -- Crossing Sexual Boundaries -- Poul Soul -- Betoun Ye and Be -- By the Light of Philophosy -- Geometry and Mother Mud -- Aesthetics Unbound -- From Boundless Void to Bounded World -- From Bounded World to Boundless Universe -- Decomposition of Place |
| Abstract | "Examining the role of boundaries and limits in James Joyce's later works, primarily Finnegans Wake but also Ulysses and other texts, this book explains and reconciles Joyce's contrary tendencies to establish and transgress limits and shows the Wake's relevance to many different fields of thought"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | "Exploring the role of boundaries and limits in the writing of James Joyce Beating the Bounds examines the role of boundaries and limits in James Joyce's later works, primarily Finnegans Wake but also Ulysses and other texts. Building on the ideas of philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Giordano Bruno, and scholar Fritz Senn, Roy Benjamin explains and reconciles Joyce's contrary tendencies to establish and transgress limits. Benjamin begins by contrasting Joyce's exploration of the artificial impositions of ritual and political power with the writer's attention to natural boundaries of rivers and mountains. The next section considers sexual, spiritual, and interpersonal boundaries in the Wake. Benjamin then discusses how Joyce simultaneously affirms and undermines the limits of philosophy, geometry, and aesthetics. The final section covers Joyce's representation of the boundaries imposed in cosmogonic myths, the collision between the bounded medieval world and the boundless world of modern science, and the drive to escape from the boundaries of place.In this detailed and original analysis, Benjamin demonstrates that in Joyce's writing, the tendency to disintegrate into chaos is countered by an urge to impose order. Benjamin's close readings put an abundance of subjects in conversation through the concept of limits, showing the Wake's relevance to many different fields of thought. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Benjamin, Roy. Beating the bounds 1. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2023 9780813070377 |
| LCCN | 2022040072 |
| ISBN | 9780813069616 |
| ISBN | 0813069610 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |