Joyce, Benjamin and magical urbanism /

" ... offers for the first time a sustained exploration of parallels between the fiction of James Joyce and the cultural criticism of Walter Benjamin. Benjamin is perhaps modernism's most eloquent theorist, Joyce its finest writer of fiction, both haunted the same Paris streets at the heig...

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Other Authors: Boscagli, Maurizia, Duffy, Enda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.
Series:European Joyce studies ; 21.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Joyce, Benjamin and magical urbanism / Enda Duffy and Maurizia Boscagli
  • Arcadian Ithaca / Douglas Mao
  • Memorial Dublin / Ellen Carol Jones
  • The communist flâneur, or, Joyce's boredom / Patrick McGee
  • Spectacle reconsidered: Joycean synaesthetics and the dialectic of the mutoscope / Maurizia Boscagli
  • Benjamin, Joyce and the disappearance of the dead / Graham MacPhee
  • The happy ring house / Enda Duffy
  • Joyce, Benjamin and the futurity of fiction / Heyward Ehrlich
  • "That bantry jobber:" William Martin Murphy and the critique of progress and productivity in Ulysses / Scott Kaufman
  • The vertical flâneur: narratorial tradecraft in the colonial metropolis / Paul K. Saint-Amour.