The first book-length treatment of Joyce and hospitality
Assesses Joyce's employment of the Lukan Good Samaritan parable in relation to his short fiction and Ulysses Articulates how Joyce teaches us to be more charitable readers
James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality reads Dubliners and Ulysses through studies of hospitality, particularly that 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, showing how these incidents and the parable were incorporated into his short story 'Grace' and throughout Ulysses, especially its last four episodes. Richard Rankin Russell discusses the rich theory of hospitality developed by Joyce and demonstrates that he sought to make us more charitable readers through his explorations and depictions of Samaritan hospitality.
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"While Joyce scholars have long recognised that the theme of hospitality permeates his work, Richard Russell is the first to read both Dubliners and Ulysses through the lens of what he calls the greatest of all parables." His argument is crisp, lucid and thoroughly readable."" -James A. W. Heffernan, Dartmouth College, author of Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature
| Preface and Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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1 Haunted by Hospitality in "The Dead" |
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2 Joyce, Scripture, and Autobiographical Rescue Narratives |
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3 Rewriting the Good Samaritan Parable: The Fictional Rescue Narratives of "Grace" and "Circe" |
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63 | (24) |
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4 Bloom as Stranger and Samaritan in "Cyclops," "Oxen of the Sun," and "Circe" |
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87 | (35) |
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5 "In orthodox Samaritan fashion": The Parabolic Encounter between Stephen and Bloom in "Eumaeus" |
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122 | (38) |
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6 Home to "Ithaca" and "Penelope": Bloom's Hospitality and Stephen and Molly's Reactions |
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160 | (20) |
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7 Enfleshed Ethics and the Responsibility of the Reader in the Good Samaritan Parable and the "Nostos" of Ulysses |
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180 | (18) |
| Coda: "Go thou and do likewise": Postcritical and Postsecular Reading through a Joycean Hermeneutics of Hospitality |
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198 | (14) |
| Works Cited |
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| Index |
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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 (Notre Dame, 2014, Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth Brooks Award for literary criticism, Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist History); Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama (Syracuse, 2014); Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings (Bloomsbury, 2013); Peter Fallon: Poet, Publisher, Editor, and Translator (Irish Academic Press, 2013); Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland (Notre Dame, 2010); Bernard MacLaverty (Bucknell, 2009) and Martin McDonagh: A Casebook (Routledge, 2007).
