Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform.
Series Statement
New directions in Irish and Irish American literature
Uniform Title
New directions in Irish and Irish American literature.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-258) and index.
Processing Action (note)
committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: Exploring freedom through language -- Stephen Dedalus gets changed -- Freedom through figuration in A portrait -- Entwined genders in A portrait -- Žižek, fantasy, and truth -- Let's get lost : exploration in Homer and Joyce -- Structure as discovery in Ulysses -- Ulysses' "Circe" : dealing in shame -- Reality as fetish : the crime in Finnegans wake -- The Africanist dimension of Finnegans wake -- The rising sun : Asia in Finnegans wake -- Conclusion and supplement: Exploration and comedy.