Eco-Joyce : the environmental imagination of James Joyce /
This collection introduces and examines the overarching ecological consciousness evinced in the writings of James Joyce. Reading Joyce with a keen attention to the manner in which the natural and built environment functions as context, horizon, threat, or site of liberation in Joyce's writing o...
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Cork, Ireland :
Cork University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: James Joyce and ecocriticism / Robert Brazeau and Derek Gladwin
- I Nature and environmental consciousness in Joyce's fiction
- James Joyce, climate change and the threat to our 'national substance' / Fiona Becket
- Joyce and the everynight / Cheryl Temple Herr
- Joyce, ecofeminism and the river as woman / Bonnie Kime Scott
- Word and world: the ecology of the pun in Finnegans Wake / Erin Walsh
- The tree wedding and the (eco)politics of Irish forestry in 'cyclops': history, language and the viconian politics of the forest / Yi-Peng Lai
- II Joyce and the urban environment
- Negative ecocritical visions in 'wandering rocks' / Margot Norris
- Joyce beyond the pale / Brandon Kershner
- 'Aquacities of thought and language': the political ecology of water in Ulysses / Greg Winston
- 'Clacking along the concrete pavement': economic isolation and the bricolage of place in James Joyce's Dubliners / Christine Cusick
- Joyce the travel writer: space, place and the environment in James Joyce's nonfiction / Derek Gladwin
- III Joyce, somatic ecology and the body
- 'Can excrement be art... if not, why now?' Joyce's aesthetic theory and the flux of consciousness / Eugene O'Brien
- Environment and embodiment in Joyce's 'The Dead' / Robert Brazeau
- 'Sunflawered' humanity in Finnegan's Wake: nature, existential shame and transcedence / James Fairhall
- Ineluctable modality of the visible: 'nature' and spectacle in 'Proteus' / Garry Leonard.