TY - BOOK ID - 73488747 TI - Joyce, "Penelope" and the body PY - 2006 SN - 9042019190 9401202559 1423791541 9781423791546 9789401202558 9789042019195 PB - Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, DB - UniCat KW - Human body in literature. KW - Body, Human, in literature KW - Human figure in literature KW - Joyce, James, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73488747 AB - Joyce, “Penelope” and the Body is a collection of twelve essays about “Penelope”, the famous final episode of Joyce’s Ulysses in relation to contemporary literary, cultural, philosophical and psychoanalytical theories of the body. As such it offers an unusually close look at that episode itself and it also becomes the very first book on Joyce that takes the idea of the body as its announced central theme. The contributors represented here come from England, Ireland, Europe and North America and they include some of the best established critics of Joyce alongside newcomers to academic publication. The essays include an encouraging diversity of approaches but they have in common a marked intellectual ambition, a surprisingly fresh and innovative approach and above all a devoted fascination for Joyce’s text. Taken together they offer much new potential for the reading of Joyce and Modernism and a range of possibilities for understanding the body and its representation through language and in culture that have resonances across the cultural sphere. ER -