At Fault
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1882-1941
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At Fault
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Author_Sebastian D.G. Knowles
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centripetal motion
collegiality
compositional process
Criticism and interpretation
cultural history
cycle of fifths
difficulty
empathy
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error
fault
Finnegans Wake
freedom
gramophone
humanism
imperialism
infinite possibility
interdisciplinarity
James Joyce and the Modern University
Jumbo the elephant
modernism
modernist objects
music hall
optics
pedagogy
philately
Philosophy
risk taking
Series
spiral reading
T. S. Eliot
telos
university education
university in crisis
Victoriana
Product details
- ISBN 9780813068480
- Weight: 483g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 2021
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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At Fault is an exhilarating celebration of risk-taking in the work of James Joyce. Esteemed Joyce scholar and teacher Sebastian Knowles critiques the state of the modern American university, denouncing what he sees as an accelerating trend of corporatization that is repressing discussions of controversial ideas and texts in the classroom. Arguing that Joyce offers the antidote to risk-averse attitudes in higher education, he shows how the modernist writer models an openness to being "at fault" that should be central to the academic enterprise.Knowles describes Joyce's writing style as an "outlaw language" imbued with the possibility and acknowledgment of failure. He demonstrates that Joyce's texts and characters display a drive to explore the boundaries of experience, to move outward in a centrifugal pattern, to defy delimitation. Knowles further highlights the expansiveness of Joyce's world by engaging a diverse range of topics, including Jumbo the elephant as a symbol of imperialism, the gramophone as a representation of the machine age, solfège and live music performance in the "Sirens" episode of Ulysses, Joyce's jokes and the neurology of humor, and inventive ways of reading and teaching Finnegans Wake.Contending that error is the central theme in all of Joyce's work, Knowles argues that the freedom to challenge boundaries and make mistakes is essential to an effective learning environment. Energetic and delightfully erudite, and offering insights drawn from over thirty years of classroom experience, Knowles inspires readers with the infinite possibilities of free human thought exemplified by Joyce's writing.
Sebastian D. G. Knowles is professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the author of several books, including The Dublin Helix: The Life of Language in Joyce's "Ulysses."
