Reading Derrida Reading Joyce
by Alan
Roughley
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This book analyzes Derrida's
uses of Joyce within his own work and demonstrates how
Joyce’s writings operate deconstructively.
The complex and tantalizing relationship between the two
men has intrigued Joyceans and Derrideans alike. Alan
Roughley here offers remarkable readings of both Joyce
and Derrida texts, in particular of Finnegans Wake
and Glas. Exploring how Joyce's ghost haunts many of Derrida's major writings, Roughley concentrates
on two areas: how Derrida reads Joyce and sees his work
as deconstructive and how English-speaking Joyceans have made use of
Derrida's theories.
Long overdue, this is the first major comprehensive study
of the relationship between Joyce and Derrida. It
demonstrates specific ways in which the major works of
one of the century’s most important literary writers
are some of the most powerful forces in the work of the
century’s most complex and controversial theorist.
It will appeal to Joyceans of all persuasions, including anti-Derrideans,
and to anyone with an interest in philosophy and
contemporary theory.
Alan Roughley is a research fellow at the University of
York in the United Kingdom. He is the author of James
Joyce and Critical Theory: An Introduction and Infernal
Cinders: An Assemblage of Contemporary Writings, and
the founding co-editor of Hypermedia Joyce, an
international electronic journal of Joyce studies.
The
Florida James Joyce Series
1999. 176pp. 6 X 9.
Bibliography, index.
ISBN 0-8130-1684-3 Cloth, $49.95s
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"A vital addition to serious collections of writings about James Joyce and about literary theory. . . . Derrida acknowledged indebtedness to Joyce. . . . The book is the best place to find an introduction to that indebtedness and also the best place to find vital understandings of Derrida's difficult works. . . . Like Joyce and Derrida, Roughley is far from easy reading; but, also like them, he is well worth the effort."--
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"The first
full-length study of Jacques Derrida's criticism based
upon the works of James Joyce. It is a brilliantly
explicated study, clearly written, and eminently
sensible. It will be the last word on the subject for
years to come."--Zack Bowen, University of
Miami
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