{"product_id":"beating-the-bounds-1","title":"Beating the Bounds","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eExploring the role of boundaries and limits in the writing of James Joyce\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeating the Bounds\u003c\/i\u003e examines the role of boundaries and limits in James Joyce’s later works, primarily \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e but also \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003eand 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin 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 \u003ci\u003eWake\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eWake\u003c\/i\u003e’s relevance to many different fields of thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA volume in the \u003ci\u003eFlorida James Joyce Series\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles.","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55805372858712,"sku":"9780813069616","price":76.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780813069616_54e1a676-fc0f-49d5-ab6f-4bdb1fc1bd34.jpg?v=1777712446","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/beating-the-bounds-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}