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JOYCE / FOUCAULT
Sexual Confessions
JOYCE / FOUCAULT
Sexual Confessions
Wolfgang Streit
the university of michigan press
Ann Arbor
I must acknowledge my great indebtedness to Paula Maier for her sensitive transla-
tion, and for her willingness to work with dispatch, even during the period follow-
ing the birth of her little Alexander.
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Streit, Wolfgang, 1963–
Joyce/Foucault : sexual confessions / by Wolfgang Streit.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn0-472-11000-4 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Joyce, James, 1882–1941 Criticism and interpretation.
2. Confession in literature. 3. Sex in literature.
4. Foucault, Michel. I. Title.
pr6019.o9z814 2004
823'.912—dc22 2004012749
ISBN13 978-0-472-11000-1 (cloth)
ISBN13 978-0-472-02465-0 (electronic)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I owe my greatest debt of gratitude to Hans Walter Gabler. Not only did
he encourage my writing and respond to my revisions of the dissertation
on which this book is based, but over some six years he also furthered my
understanding of James Joyce’s writing and indeed other literature, all the
while freely accepting my own approach. Along with Ulrich Broich,
whom I also wish to thank, he supported my application for the two-year
scholarship that allowed me to prepare the core of this book. Many of my
ideas about theory date back to my ‹rst contact with Foucault in a seminar
led by the epistemologist Walter Bühl. Together with the philosopher
Georg Kohler, he helped shape my comprehension of Foucault’s thought.
I am also grateful to the determined structuralist Daniel Wedekind, with
whom I enjoyed a great many fruitful discussions.
I also thank the staff of the University of Michigan Press for their gener-
ous aid and understanding, foremost Susan Whitlock, LeAnn Fields,
Michael Landauer Jr., and Marcia LaBrenz. Our association has been most
fortunate. My most heartfelt thanks go to my parents, who never failed to
support and encourage me over the course of this project.
Needless to say, any shortcomings in the book are mine alone.
CONTENTS
Abbreviations ix
Introduction: Joyce and Confession 1
1 Confession and Order in Chamber Musicand Dubliners 13
2 The Struggle for Confession in A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man 29
3 The Stage as Confessional: Exiles 70
4 Ulysses’Sexual Confession and Its Self-Critique 85
5 Sexual Uncertainty in Finnegans Wake 144
Notes 159
References 203
Index 215
ABBREVIATIONS
CH Robert H. Deming, ed. James Joyce: The Critical Heritage. 2 vols.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970.
DC James Joyce. Dubliners. Edited by Hans Walter Gabler and Walter
Hettche. New York: Garland, 1993.
E James Joyce. Exiles: A Play in Three Acts. London: Penguin, 1973.
FW James Joyce. Finnegans Wake.New York: Viking Press, 1959.
HS I Michel Foucault. The History of Sexuality. Vol. 1, An Introduction.
Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1978.
French original: Histoire de la sexualité, vol. 1, La volonté de savoir
(Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1976).
JJ Richard Ellmann. James Joyce.New York: Oxford University Press,
1982.
JJQ James Joyce Quarterly.
P James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Edited by Hans
Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche. New York: Garland, 1993.
SL Selected Letters of James Joyce. Edited by Richard Ellmann. London:
Faber and Faber, 1975.
U James Joyce.Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition.3 vols. Edited by
Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior.
New York: Garland, 1984.
US Michael Moscato and Leslie LeBlanc, eds. The United States of Amer-
ica vs. One Book Entitled “Ulysses” by James Joyce: Documents and Com-
mentary—a Fifty-Year Retrospective.Frederick, Md.: University Pub-
lications of America, 1984.
WD Robert Scholes and Richard M. Kain, eds. The Workshop of Daedalus:
James Joyce and the Raw Materials for “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man.”Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1965.
