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In exploring these modern philosophers of the animal and its instinctual life, the author inevitably rebiologizes them even against efforts to debiologize thinkers whose works can be studied profitably for their models of signification.

Originally published in 1977. The pioneer critics of Finnegans Wake hailed the work as a radical critique of language and civilization. Resuming their position, Margot Norris explains the book's most intractable uncertainties not as puzzles to be solved by a clever reader but as manifestations of a "chaosmos, " a Freudian dream world of sexual transgression and social dissolution, of inauthentic being and empty words. Conventional moralities a...

Generally considered one of the greatest modern writers, James Joyce (1882-1941) grew up in Dublin, Ireland, but spent his adult life in the European cities of Trieste, Zurich, and Paris. Yet, while he left his native country behind, he never stopped writing about it. He published his well-known short story collection, Dubliners, in 1914 and the coming-of-age novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man two years later. In 1922 came Ulysses, ...

The twentieth century will be remembered for great innovation in two particular areas: art and culture, and technological advancement. Much of its prodigious technical inventiveness, however, was pressed into service in the conduct of warfare. Why, asks Margot Norris, did violence and suffering on such an immense scale fail to arouse artistic and cultural expressions powerful enough to prevent the recurrence of these horrors? Why was art not m...

The twentieth century will be remembered for great innovation in two particular areas: art and culture, and technological advancement. Much of its prodigious technical inventiveness, however, was pressed into service in the conduct of warfare. Why, asks Margot Norris, did violence and suffering on such an immense scale fail to arouse artistic and cultural expressions powerful enough to prevent the recurrence of these horrors? Why was art not m...

Margot Norris discusses the challenges that Ulysses, one of the greatest and most difficult novels of the twentieth century, posed to the filmmaker, along with the production and censorship problems that Strick encountered before the film was released to great contemporary critical acclaim.

Suspicious Readings of Joyce's "Dubliners"Margot Norris"A sophisticated, provocative, and thoroughly original approach to Joyce's stories, especially to the peculiarities of their narrative style. It is difficult to think of another book on Joyce published over the last fifteen years of comparable significance."--Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of PennsylvaniaBecause the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners seem to function as models of fiction, ...

This book explores the writings of James Joyce from his early poetry and stories to his final avant-garde work, Finnegans Wake.

Margot Norris' The Value of James Joyce explores the writings of James Joyce from his early poetry and short stories to his final avant-garde work, Finnegans Wake. His works include some of the most difficult and challenging texts in the English literary canon without diminishing his impressive popularity beyond the scope of academia. A democratic impulse may be counted as an important feature of this paradox: that Joyce's stylistic and lingui...

A companion to Ulysses which provides a biographical and historical background to the original work and accounts of five important contemporary critical approaches to the text. The different editions of Ulysses are considered, and the companion is part of the CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM series.

In this revolutionary work, Margot Norris proposes that Joyce's art critiques modernism's fundamental concept of the artist as martyr to bourgeois sensibilities by revealing an awareness of the artist's connections to and constraints within bourgeois society.