James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism [Paperback]

In this 2001 book Jean-Michel Rabat? approaches the Joycean canon through the concept of 'egoism'.In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of egoism . This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, hospitality , a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to the other . Rabaté explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars of modernism.In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of egoism . This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, hospitality , a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to the other . Rabaté explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars of modernism.In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of egoism . This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, hospitality , a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to the other . Rabaté explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars of modernism.Foreword; 1. Apr?s le mot, le d?luge: the ego as symptom; 2. The ego, the nation and degeneration; 3. Joyce the egoist; 4. The aesthetic paradoxes of egoism: from egoism to the theoretic; 5. Theory's slice of life; 6. The egoist and the king; 7. The conquest of Paris; 8. Joyce's transitional revolution; 9. Hospitality and sodomy; 10. Textual hospitality in the 'capital city'; 11. Joyce's late modernism and the birth ol³Ñ