Title The Conscience of James Joyce / by Darcy O'Brien

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1968

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Description 1 online resource Series Princeton Legacy Library Princeton legacy library. Contents Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Editions of Joyce's Works Used in the Text -- I. Genesis of the conscience -- II. The conscience examined -- III. The conscience and Stephen Dedalus -- IV. The conscience and Leopold Bloom -- V. The conscience and Molly Bloom -- VI. The conscience and Shem and Shaun -- VII. The conscience in perspective -- Index Summary James Joyce, the great and bold literary innovator of our time, was also a rebel in life, a self-exile from family, nation, and religion. Criticism of Joyce, when it has not been purely technical, has sought in Joyce's work ideas as radical as his techniques and as rebellious as his life. Mr. O'Brien discovers that Joyce was neither morally revolutionary nor morally neutral. Instead, Joyce emerges as an Irishman clinging to a conception of human nature largely derived from the Irish Catholic background he so vehemently denounced. In this study of Joyce's work, from his early poems through Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Mr. O'Brien argues that Joyce eventually achieved, in his books, a comic perspective on the follies of mankind. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 Notes Includes index Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Psychology SUBJECT Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Psychology Joyce, James, 1882-1941 fast Subject Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism Novelists, Irish -- 20th century -- Psychology LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature Novelists, Irish -- Psychology Psychological fiction, English Psychology SUBJECT Ireland -- In literature Subject Ireland Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400877065 1400877067

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