An Artistic Metempsychosis: James Joyce's and Sadeq Hedayat's Nonlinear and Chaotic Imagination / Leila Baradaran Jamili and Bahman Zarrinjooee. Introduction / Martha C. Carpentier -- 12. Kate O'Brien, James Joyce, and the 'Lonely Genius'' / Elizabeth Foley O'Connor -- 2. Thanks Be To Joyce: Brendan Behan à Paris / Thomas O'Grady -- 3. Houses of Decay: Joyce, History, and J.G. Farrell's Troubles / Steven Morrison -- 4. Adaptations of Joyce in the Fiction of Patrick McCabe / Ellen McWilliams -- 5. The Nightmare of History in George Orwell's The Clergyman's Daughter / Ruth Hoberman -- 6. 'Bizarre or dream like': J.R.R. Tolkien on Finnegans Wake / Margaret Hiley -- 7. The 'Baroque Weaving Machine': Contrasting Counterpoint in James Joyce and Anthony Burgess / Jim Clarke -- 8. Wars Waged With/Against Joyce: James Joyce and Post-1984 British Fiction / David Vichnar -- 9. Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and the Joycean Bildungsroman / Martha C. Carpentier -- 10. 'A Stone in Place of the Heart': The Influence of James Joyce on the Late Style of Raymond Carver / Nathan Oates -- 11. Imagining the 'wettest indies': The Transatlantic Network of James Joyce and Derek Walcott / Maria McGarrity -- 12. An Artistic Metempsychosis: James Joyce's and Sadeq Hedayat's Nonlinear and Chaotic Imagination / Leila Baradaran Jamili and Bahman Zarrinjooee.
Summary:
"The primary focus of the twelve essays in this collection is on the craft of James Joyce and the profound challenge it has posed for subsequent writers from the 1940s to the present day. First, each writer's positioning of him or herself in relation to the professed Joycean legacy is discussed, often with reference to archival material, then explication of the creative work illuminates those moments where mere mimicry, parody, or allusion becomes conjoined with original expression to create a new form. Writers as diverse as Kate O'Brien, Brendan Behan, and Frank McCourt pay direct tribute to Joyce's inspiration, while others such as J.G. Farrell, George Orwell, and Patrick McCabe engage with the Joycean critique of history; postmodernists such as Anthony Burgess, Raymond Carver, and Iain Sinclair revisit Joycean linguistic and generic innovation in unexpected ways, while Derek Walcott and Persian modernist Sedaq Hedayat represent two views of Joyce's enduring global legacy. Featuring a Preface by Derek Attridge, the volume will fill a real gap in scholarship on Joyce's complex influence on contemporary literature biographically, textually, stylistically and generically. "-- Provided by publisher.
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