TY - BOOK AU - Davison,Neil R. TI - James Joyce, Ulysses, and the construction of Jewish identity: culture, biography, and "the Jew" in modernist Europe SN - 0585000514 AV - PR6019.O9 U6363 1996eb U1 - 823/.912 20 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Joyce, James, KW - Ulysses (Joyce, James) KW - fast KW - Jews in literature KW - Antisemitism KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Bloom, Leopold (Fictitious character) KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature KW - Novelists, Irish KW - Biography KW - Juifs dans la littérature KW - Antisémitisme KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Stéréotypes dans la littérature KW - Romanciers irlandais KW - Biographies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Religion KW - Electronic books KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index; Foreword: Anthony Julius -- Introduction -- Silence: family values -- Silence: Jesuit years: Clongowes and Belvedere -- Silence: university years: the Church, Dreyfus, and aesthetics -- Exile: excursion to the Continent, bitter return -- Cunning and exile: Greeks and Jews -- Cunning: Jews and the Continent: texts and subtexts -- Cunning: the miracle of Lazarus times two: Joyce and Italo Svevo -- Ulysses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - Representations of 'the Jew' have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies. Neil Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious and political discourse about 'the Jew' forms a unifying component of his career. Davison offers new biographical material, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses showing how Joyce draws on Christian folklore, Dreyfus Affair propaganda, Sinn Fein politics, and theories of Jewish sexual perversion and financial conspiracy. Throughout, Joyce confronts the controversy of 'race', the psychology of internalised stereotype, and the contradictions of fin-de-siècle anti-Semitism UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2075 ER -