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Forms of Materiality in James Joyce's Fiction offers a fundamental reappraisal of material entities in James Joyce's works from a new materialist and ecocritical perspective. It argues that material entities - parsed under the categories of symbols, banal objects, waste and the substance of art - are essential in Joyce's articulation of aesthetic ideas, theories of perception and practices of representation. Alberto Tondello claims that Joyce's objects are particularly well placed to highlight collaborations and dissonances between human and nonhuman entities, and to link the material nature of objects with the abstraction of aesthetic concepts and philosophical ideas. With its interdisciplinary approach, Forms of Materiality recognises the complexities of the material world and the vibrancy of human perception as depicted in Joyce's works, thus offering novel readings and original approaches to his oeuvre.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Objects of Modernism
1. Epiphanic Objects: The Theory of Epiphany Between Triviality and Transcendence
2. Textual Objects: Material Language and Cognition in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3. Queer Objects: Dubliners and Queer Phenomenology
4. Lively Objects: Relational Ontologies in Ulysses
5. Malleable Objects: the co-responses of Finnegans Wake
Conclusion: A Comb with Thick Teeth
Bibliography
Index
