The Story
Representations of the Jew have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies. Neil Davison argues that Joyces lifelong encounter with pseudoscientific, religious, and political discourse about the Jew forms a unifying component of his career. He offers new biographical material, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses to show how Joyce confronts the controversy of race, the psychology of internalized stereotype, and the contradictions of findesicle antiSemitism.
Description
Representations of the Jew have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies. Neil Davison argues that Joyces lifelong encounter with pseudoscientific, religious, and political discourse about the Jew forms a unifying component of his career. He offers new biographical material, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses to show how Joyce confronts the controversy of race, the psychology of internalized stereotype, and the contradictions of findesicle antiSemitism.
