Abstract
Ruben Borg's The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida argues that James Joyce's Finnegans Wake must be read as a singular attempt to represent the eccentric structure of post-human temporality. The book relocates the Wake within a long history of philosophies of time as well as recent post-structuralist and information theory. Drawing upon the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, Borg shows how Joyce's formal and narratological innovations enabled him to present a structure of time that does not obey the linear, humanistic progression of the bildungsroman but instead manifests mechanical temporal economies of production and waste.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 192-195 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Modern Literature |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- James Joyce
- modernism
- philosophy
- time
- post-humanism