Author: Robert Spoo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358600
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Stephen Dedalus's famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce's creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome in 1906-07 to the completion of Ulysses in 1922, cannot be understood apart from the ferment of historical thought that dominated the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing James Joyce's historiographic art to its formative contexts, Spoo reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of history, forging a new language that both dramatizes and redefines that problem.
James Joyce and the Language of History
Author: Robert Spoo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358600
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Stephen Dedalus's famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce's creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome in 1906-07 to the completion of Ulysses in 1922, cannot be understood apart from the ferment of historical thought that dominated the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing James Joyce's historiographic art to its formative contexts, Spoo reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of history, forging a new language that both dramatizes and redefines that problem.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358600
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Stephen Dedalus's famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce's creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome in 1906-07 to the completion of Ulysses in 1922, cannot be understood apart from the ferment of historical thought that dominated the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing James Joyce's historiographic art to its formative contexts, Spoo reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of history, forging a new language that both dramatizes and redefines that problem.
James Joyce and the Language of History
Author: Robert Spoo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197724743
Category : History in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tracing Joyce's historiographic art to its formative contexts, from his sojourn in Rome in 1906 to the completion of "Ulysses" in 1922, this study reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of history, forging a new language that both dramatizes and redefines that problem.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197724743
Category : History in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tracing Joyce's historiographic art to its formative contexts, from his sojourn in Rome in 1906 to the completion of "Ulysses" in 1922, this study reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of history, forging a new language that both dramatizes and redefines that problem.
Joyce Effects
Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521777889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521777889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce.
Ulysses
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Languages : en
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James Joyce and the Question of History
Author: James Fairhall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Explores James Joyce's work as a response to developments in British and European history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Explores James Joyce's work as a response to developments in British and European history.
James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism
Author: Daniel M. Shea
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838255747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
"James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism" examines anew how myth exists in Joyce's fiction. Using Joyce's idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths of Catholicism, this study explores how the rejected religion still acts as a foundational aesthetic for a new mythology of the Modern age starting with "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and maturing within "Ulysses". Like the mythopoets before him -- Homer, Dante, Milton, Blake -- Joyce consciously sets out to encapsulate his vision of a splintered and rapidly changing reality into a new aesthetic which alone is capable of successfully rendering the fullness of life in a meaningful way. Already reeling from the humanistic implications of an impersonal Newtonian universe, the Modern world now faced an Einsteinian one, a re-evaluation which includes Stephen's awakening from the "nightmare" of history, a re-definition of deity, and Bloom's urban identity. Written with both the experienced Joycean and the beginner in mind, this book tells how the Joycean myth is our own conception of the human being, and our place in the universe becomes (re)defined as definitively Modernist, yet still, through Molly Bloom's final affirmation, profoundly human.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838255747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
"James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism" examines anew how myth exists in Joyce's fiction. Using Joyce's idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths of Catholicism, this study explores how the rejected religion still acts as a foundational aesthetic for a new mythology of the Modern age starting with "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and maturing within "Ulysses". Like the mythopoets before him -- Homer, Dante, Milton, Blake -- Joyce consciously sets out to encapsulate his vision of a splintered and rapidly changing reality into a new aesthetic which alone is capable of successfully rendering the fullness of life in a meaningful way. Already reeling from the humanistic implications of an impersonal Newtonian universe, the Modern world now faced an Einsteinian one, a re-evaluation which includes Stephen's awakening from the "nightmare" of history, a re-definition of deity, and Bloom's urban identity. Written with both the experienced Joycean and the beginner in mind, this book tells how the Joycean myth is our own conception of the human being, and our place in the universe becomes (re)defined as definitively Modernist, yet still, through Molly Bloom's final affirmation, profoundly human.
Joyce and the Jews
Author: Ira Bruce Hadel
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134907652X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Nadel examines Joyce's identification with the dislocated Jew after his exodus from Ireland and analyzes the influence which Rabbinical hermeneutics and Judaic textuality had on his language. Biographical and historical information is used as well as Joyce's texts and critical theory.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134907652X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Nadel examines Joyce's identification with the dislocated Jew after his exodus from Ireland and analyzes the influence which Rabbinical hermeneutics and Judaic textuality had on his language. Biographical and historical information is used as well as Joyce's texts and critical theory.
One Hundred Years of James Joyce's "Ulysses"
Author: Colm Tóibín
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271092898
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A collection of essays commemorating the 1922 publication of James Joyce's Ulysses. Includes contributions by preeminent Joyce scholars and by curators of his manuscripts and early editions.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271092898
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A collection of essays commemorating the 1922 publication of James Joyce's Ulysses. Includes contributions by preeminent Joyce scholars and by curators of his manuscripts and early editions.
Joyce and Prose
Author: John Porter Houston
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838751497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Ulysses is discussed in relation to the history of prose, and individual chapters are given syntactic and prosodic examination to illumine their distinctive linguistic design, revealing Joyce's awareness of linguistic devices derived from other languages and eras.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838751497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Ulysses is discussed in relation to the history of prose, and individual chapters are given syntactic and prosodic examination to illumine their distinctive linguistic design, revealing Joyce's awareness of linguistic devices derived from other languages and eras.
James Joyce's America
Author: Brian Fox
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192543687
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
James Joyce's America is the first study to address the nature of Joyce's relation to the United States. It challenges the prevalent views of Joyce as merely indifferent or hostile towards America, and argues that his works show an increasing level of engagement with American history, culture, and politics that culminates in the abundance of allusions to the US in Finnegans Wake, the very title of which comes from an Irish-American song and signals the importance of America to that work. The volume focuses on Joyce's concept of America within the framework of an Irish history that his works obsessively return to. It concentrates on Joyce's thematic preoccupation with Ireland and its history and America's relation to Irish post-Famine history. Within that context, it explores first Joyce's relation to Irish America and how post-Famine Irish history, as Joyce saw it, transformed the country from a nation of invasions and settlements to one spreading out across the globe, ultimately connecting Joyce's response to this historical phenomenon to the diffusive styles of Finnegans Wake. It then discusses American popular and literary cultures in terms of how they appear in relation to, or as a function of, the British-Irish colonial context in the post-Famine era, and concludes with a consideration of how Joyce represented his American reception in the Wake.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192543687
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
James Joyce's America is the first study to address the nature of Joyce's relation to the United States. It challenges the prevalent views of Joyce as merely indifferent or hostile towards America, and argues that his works show an increasing level of engagement with American history, culture, and politics that culminates in the abundance of allusions to the US in Finnegans Wake, the very title of which comes from an Irish-American song and signals the importance of America to that work. The volume focuses on Joyce's concept of America within the framework of an Irish history that his works obsessively return to. It concentrates on Joyce's thematic preoccupation with Ireland and its history and America's relation to Irish post-Famine history. Within that context, it explores first Joyce's relation to Irish America and how post-Famine Irish history, as Joyce saw it, transformed the country from a nation of invasions and settlements to one spreading out across the globe, ultimately connecting Joyce's response to this historical phenomenon to the diffusive styles of Finnegans Wake. It then discusses American popular and literary cultures in terms of how they appear in relation to, or as a function of, the British-Irish colonial context in the post-Famine era, and concludes with a consideration of how Joyce represented his American reception in the Wake.