{"product_id":"joyces-theatrical-poetics-the-novel-language-of-drama-9780813079578","title":"Joyce's Theatrical Poetics: The Novel Language of Drama","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Valérie Bénéjam\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLooking beyond the view of James Joyce as a failed playwright to uncover how Joyce's modernist breakthroughs are grounded in theatrical techniques\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Val�rie B�n�jam argues that the success of James Joyce's fiction lies in its theatricality and examines the role of drama throughout the writer's entire oeuvre. While Joyce's only surviving play, \u003ci\u003eExiles\u003c\/i\u003e, was widely considered a failure, B�n�jam demonstrates that Joyce inserted theater and theatricality into his short stories and novels instead, where they became the markers of his specific modernist aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eB�n�jam identifies a theatrical bent in Joyce's early writings, seen in the minimalist play scripts of the epiphanies. His powerful use of dialogism continues in his early fiction, with \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, Joyce includes theatrical techniques such as soliloquy, dialogue, script, and asides, most evident in chapters like \"Circe\" and \"Penelope.\" And in his final work, \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, the conflict and crisis that are the essence of drama come to disrupt language at its very core.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending biographical elements, close readings of text, and references to the playwrights whose work inspired Joyce, including Ibsen, Shakespeare, Wilde, and Synge, \u003ci\u003eJoyce's Theatrical Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e moves chronologically to explain how drama, conceived by Joyce as a demand for truth and movement in art, played a key role in his revolutionary disruption of the novel genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47773681614999,"sku":"9780813079578","price":9790.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813079578.webp?v=1777980942","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/joyces-theatrical-poetics-the-novel-language-of-drama-9780813079578","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}