James Joyce And Samaritan Hospitality: Postcritical And Postsecular Reading In Dubliners And Ulysses

The first book-length treatment of Joyce and hospitality This study reads James Joyce's Dubliners and principally, Ulysses, through studies of hospitality, particularly the hospitality articulated in the Lukan parable of the Good Samaritan. It traces the origins of the novel, in part, to the physical attacks on Joyce in 1904 Dublin and 1907 Rome, and shows how those incidents, combined with his interest in this parable, which he incorporated into both his short story "Grace" and throughout Ulysses, especially in its last four episodes, led him to develop a rich theory of hospitality. Richard Rankin Russell demonstrates that Joyce finally sought to make us more charitable readers through his explorations and depictions of Samaritan hospitality. Richard Rankin Russell is Professor of English and Graduate Program Director in the English department at Baylor University. His books include Seamus Heaney: An Introduction (Edinburgh, 2016), Seamus Heaney's Regions (2014) and Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama (2014).

• | Author: Richard Rankin Russell
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 30, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1474499007
• | ISBN-13: 9781474499002