| Description |
1 online resource (x, 195 pages) |
| Contents |
A NOTE ON CITATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Joyce's Attitudes Toward History: Rome, 1906-7; 2 Fabricated Ghosts: A Metahistorical Reading of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 3 Teleology, Monocausality, and Marriage in Ulysses; 4 "Nestor" and "Proteus": History, Language, Intertextuality; 5 "Aeolus," Rhetoric, and History; 6 The Language of Literary History: "Oxen of the Sun," "Circe," and Beyond; NOTES; INDEX |
| Summary |
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 hi |
| Analysis |
English fiction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-186) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- History
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Language and languages
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History in literature.
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Literature and history -- Europe.
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Literature and history -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
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Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
93047269 |
| ISBN |
0195087496 (Cloth) |
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1280442883 |
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1423738071 (electronic bk.) |
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1601299664 |
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9780195087499 (Cloth) |
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9781280442889 |
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9781423738077 (electronic bk.) |
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9781601299666 |
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