James Joyce and Education

<p><em>James Joyce and Education</em> is the first full-length study of education across the Joyce oeuvre. A new account of how the politics and aesthetics of the Joyce text is informed by historical contexts it is the latest contribution to the growing contemporary debate about education late modernism and literary innovation.</p> <p>This highly original account reads <i>Dubliners A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ulysses </i>and<i> Finnegans Wake</i> in new and challenging ways. It produces the Joyce text as a complex and comic devotion to the representation of schooled education - an exemplification of the elitism that state schooling was historically designed to reproduce and a devastating undoing of the epistemologies it was designed to sustain. Chapters explore a range of themes including Joyce and radical education the impact of Nietzsche's writing on Joyce and women and education.</p> <p>The book will appeal to researchers scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of literature in education pedagogy Joyce scholarship and modernism. </p>