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The Usual: Pub Phenomenology In The Works Of James Joyce, Thomas Keegan Aug 2015

The Usual: Pub Phenomenology In The Works Of James Joyce, Thomas Keegan

Tom Keegan

"The Usual: Pub Phenomenology in the Works of James Joyce" attempts to wrest the pub from critical dismissal as a token symbol of paternalistic Irish drunkenness and return it to the center of Joyce's work as the site for his development of a philosophy of being. Read this way, the pub illustrates ways humans come to understand their place in the world through objects, practices, and later, as part of a public entity. The pub also tells the story of modernism's impact on Irish society. Few spaces so deftly render the complexities of the modern Irish position: at the edge …


Introduction: Kämiks, Thomas Keegan Dec 2004

Introduction: Kämiks, Thomas Keegan

Tom Keegan

This essay introduces the articles published in the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies' "Kämiks" issue and discusses the shared terrain of comics, William Blake, and contemporary film.