Joyce's Love Stories
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Act III
amatory
Amatory Aesthetics
Amatory Freedom
Author_Christopher DeVault
Bloom's Thoughts
Bloom’s Thoughts
Book III
Buber philosophy
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desire
Dublin literary studies
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ethical criticism
ethics of love in Joyce's fiction
Fellow Dubliners
finnegans
Finnegans Wake
freedom
HCE
hero
Ideal Love Objects
Irish modernism
Joyce's Love
Joyce's Love Stories
Joyce's Story
Joycean Oeuvre
joyces
Joyce’s Love
Joyce’s Story
Love Ethic
Miss Ivors
Mrs Sinico
narrative empathy
objects
Park Scandal
political subjectivity
Reciprocal Affirmation
stephen
Stephen Hero
Stephen's Desire
Stephen's Inability
Stephen's Refusal
stephens
Stephen’s Desire
Stephen’s Inability
Stephen’s Refusal
Uncreated Conscience
Unsubstantial Image
wake
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409442769
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Apr 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In his comprehensive study of love in James Joyce's writings, Christopher DeVault suggests that a love ethic persists throughout Joyce's works. DeVault uses Martin Buber's distinction between the true love for others and the narcissistic desire for oneself to frame his discussion, showing that Joyce frequently ties his characters' personal and political pursuits to their ability to affirm both their loved ones and their fellow Dubliners. In his short stories and novels, DeVault argues, Joyce shows how personal love makes possible a broader social compassion that creates a more progressive body politic. While his early protagonists' narcissism limits them to detached engagements with Dublin that impede effective political action, Joyce demonstrates the viability of his love ethic through both the Blooms’ empathy in Ulysses and the polylogic dreamtext of Finnegan's Wake. In its revelation of Joyce's amorous alternative to the social and political paralysis he famously attributed to twentieth-century Dublin, Joyce's Love Stories allows for a better appreciation of the ethical and political significance underpinning the author's assessments of Ireland.
Christopher DeVault is Assistant Professor of English at Mount Mercy University, USA.
