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IMAGINING JOYCE AND DERRIDA: BETWEEN FINNEGANS WAKE AND GLAS This page intentionally left blank PETER MAHON Imagining Joyce and Derrida Between Finnegans Wake and Glas UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2007 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN 978-0-8020-9249-6 Printed on acid-free paper Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Mahon, Peter, 1971– Imagining Joyce and Derrida : between Finnegans wake and Glas / Peter Mahon. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8020-9249-6 1. Joyce, James, 1882–1941. Finnegans wake. 2. Derrida, Jacques. Glas. 3. Joyce, James, 1882–1941 – Criticism and interpretation. 4. Derrida, Jacques – Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PR6019.O9Z7254 2007 823(cid:99).912 C2006-906663-9 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). Pour Darcy, pour tout. ... tiger, my eagle eye. This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Plate: The ‘Tunc’ page of the Book of Kells x Introduction: A Brief Sketch of Joyce-Derrida Intertextuality 3 1 ‘Immargination’: The Site of the Imagination 14 2 Following the Hen: Applied ‘Epistlemadethemology’ 77 3 To Hen: The ‘parody’s bird’ of Logos 136 4 ‘Feelful thinkamalinks’: Vichian Bodies, Wakean Bodies 207 5 Imagination, Representation, and Religion 250 6 ‘What is the ti..?’: The Remains of Time 304 Notes 359 Works Cited 385 Index 391 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments I would like to thank Lorraine Weir of the department of English at the University of British Columbia for all her help, insight, advice, and support during the formative stages of this project. I would also like to thank Ralph Sarkonak of the French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies de- partment at UBC for his careful reading of the text and his support at a time when it was needed. Special thanks are due to Jill McConkey at University of Toronto Press for her hard work on behalf of this book. I would also like to thank the other staff at UTP involved in seeing the manuscript into print. Thanks also to the anonymous readers of the manuscript for their insightful comments and the Board of Trinity College, Dublin, for giving me permission to reproduce folio 124r of the Book of Kells. Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank my family in Ire- land, especially Karen, Colm, Gran, and Brian. A very special thanks must go to my mother, Joan Mahon, for all her sacrifices over the years. Thanks, Mam.
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