Imagining Joyce and Derrida: Between Finnegans Wake and Glas

416 Pages·2007·3.514 MB·English

by  Peter Mahon

IMAGINING JOYCE AND DERRIDA:
BETWEEN FINNEGANS WAKE AND GLAS
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PETER MAHON
Imagining Joyce and Derrida
Between Finnegans Wake and Glas
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
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© University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2007
Toronto Buffalo London
Printed in Canada
ISBN 978-0-8020-9249-6
Printed on acid-free paper
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Mahon, Peter, 1971–
Imagining Joyce and Derrida : between Finnegans wake and
Glas / Peter Mahon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8020-9249-6
1. Joyce, James, 1882–1941. Finnegans wake. 2. Derrida, Jacques. Glas.
3. Joyce, James, 1882–1941 – Criticism and interpretation. 4. Derrida,
Jacques – Criticism and interpretation. I. Title.
PR6019.O9Z7254 2007 823(cid:99).912 C2006-906663-9
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to
its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the
Ontario Arts Council.
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the
Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for
its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the
Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP).
Pour Darcy, pour tout.
... tiger, my eagle eye.
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Plate: The ‘Tunc’ page of the Book of Kells x
Introduction: A Brief Sketch of Joyce-Derrida Intertextuality 3
1 ‘Immargination’: The Site of the Imagination 14
2 Following the Hen: Applied ‘Epistlemadethemology’ 77
3 To Hen: The ‘parody’s bird’ of Logos 136
4 ‘Feelful thinkamalinks’: Vichian Bodies, Wakean Bodies 207
5 Imagination, Representation, and Religion 250
6 ‘What is the ti..?’: The Remains of Time 304
Notes 359
Works Cited 385
Index 391
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Lorraine Weir of the department of English at the
University of British Columbia for all her help, insight, advice, and
support during the formative stages of this project. I would also like to
thank Ralph Sarkonak of the French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies de-
partment at UBC for his careful reading of the text and his support at a
time when it was needed.
Special thanks are due to Jill McConkey at University of Toronto
Press for her hard work on behalf of this book. I would also like to
thank the other staff at UTP involved in seeing the manuscript into
print. Thanks also to the anonymous readers of the manuscript for
their insightful comments and the Board of Trinity College, Dublin, for
giving me permission to reproduce folio 124r of the Book of Kells.
Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank my family in Ire-
land, especially Karen, Colm, Gran, and Brian. A very special thanks
must go to my mother, Joan Mahon, for all her sacrifices over the years.
Thanks, Mam.