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1 online resource |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 35 |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 35.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Prologue: the Pound connection -- Science and the novel in the wartime avant-garde, 1914-1918 -- "Wandering rocks", physics, The egoist, and The little review, 1918-1919 -- "Ithaca", post-Euclidean geometry, relativity, and the mythic method, 1920-1922 -- Finnegans wake and popular science in the inter-war period, 1923-1929 -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
This book makes an important intervention in the ongoing debates about modernism, science, and the divisions of early Twentieth-Century print culture. In order to establish Joyce's place in the nexus of modernism and scientific thought, Drouin uses the methods of periodical studies and textual criticism to examine the impact of Einstein's relativity theories on the development of Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Looking at experiments with space, time, motion, and perspective, it rigorously surveys discourse of science and the novel in the print culture networks connected to Joyce, wi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 fast |
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Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Science in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature and science
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Science in literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317541509 |
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1317541502 |
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9781315727967 |
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131572796X |
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0415895529 |
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9780415895521 |
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