The measureless time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida
"By examining the relation between time and processes of figuration in James Joyce's later work, this ground-breaking study identifies his attempt to engage with the philosophical problem of describing time's characteristic movement, while acknowledging the impossibility of reducing this movement to anything that can be observed, represented or even experienced. Ruben Borg argues that this problem informs the narrative structure, imagery and complex rhetorical strategies in Firmeqans Wake and Ulysses. Drawing on the work of Delcuze and Derrida, Borg challenges the assumption that Joycean time is organized around the idea of a totalizing present. Emphasizing his treatment of time as a force of measureless passing, Borg offers a better understanding of Joyce's endeavour to characterize time as a multiplicity that resists representation or objective measurement, and its role as a central theme and structural element in his later work."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2007
Continuum, London, ©2007