Product Description Joyce Beyond Marx brings together 11 essays and a new introduction by internationally respected Joyce scholar Patrick McGee. While a number of the pieces have been previously published, McGee has extensively revised them, integrated them with substantial new material, and produced a unified collection that examines the experimental fictions of James Joyce,Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, from the perspective of cultural materialism. Offering a critique of the class politics of contemporary Joyce studies, McGee insists that Joyce's later work be understood in the context of the general political economy, or conditions of production, that underlies both Joyce's career and his critical reputation. He relates debates over pedagogy and the critical editions of Joyce's works to his situation as a colonial and postcolonial subject and as a critic of the social, economic, and ethical values of capitalism. In his groundbreaking view of Joyce's politics, McGee offers a new way to understand Joyce's attitude toward violence and social change and his response to the Irish revolution and civil war. A final long essay lays out the implicit theory of social and cultural revolution in the Wake.While especially valuable to scholars of modern literature and critical theory, the work also will be important to readers in a range of fields, including politics, education, psychoanalysis, feminist and gender theory, ethics, and postcolonial theory. Review "Anyone who writes on Joyce will have to take this book into account. I predict that future Joyce criticism will echo with McGee's insights about Joyce and history."-- John Paul Riquelme, Boston University"A valuable collection from an important critic and major presence in studies of James Joyce. It takes an exceptional mind and sensibility to make a book worth reading and worth examining--worth thinking about. Patrick McGee has those qualities, and we see them pervading every essay in this volume."-- Morris Beja, Ohio State University"Although this book will no doubt generate many critical responses from other well-known Joyce scholars, it is especially helpful for younger Joyceans who want to plunge themselves into the daunting maze of Joyce criticism. McGee's study promises to be a valuable tool. It is lucid and, in spite of its firm theoretical orientation, never dogmatic. He is always ready to revisit and reconsider accepted critical and theoretical paradigms, even if they are his own. This makes Joyce Beyond Marx a stimulating and informative study that will secure it a significant place in the vast landscape of Joyce scholarship." --Vike Martina Plock, James Joyce Broadsheet"McGee's collection is exactly what these sorts of retrospectives ought to be: not just a collection of one's previous work into a single volume, but a re-seeing and a re-vision of that work from the vantage point of the present moment, fifteen, thirteen, or five years beyond its original conception. ... Taken as a whole, these essays propel McGee toward the argument of his final chapter, that of the new "communism" he finally claims for Joyce, which he bases in Joyce's refusal to work or to produce value in the conventional sense of holding a wage-producing job, to write novels that preserve traditional aesthetic values, or to uphold in his novels the status quo of language and other colonizing systems."--Tracey Teets Schwarze, Modern Fiction Studies"His sense of the implications of the postcolonial debate is most acute, and his critique of a number of writers who have contextualized Joyce's writings by invoking the concept of the subaltern is most acute. McGee also has marvelous skills as a close reader, and, when he allows himself the luxury of an extended examination of the inculcation of figures from twentieth-century Irish history into the narrative of Finnegans Wake, he presents us with insights that make one wish for more such explication.... McGee, like any fine critic, has clear an