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Joyce's Dante : exile, memory, and community / James Robinson.
Van Pelt Library PR6019.O9 Z78484 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, James, 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Joyce, James.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Influence.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
- Exiles in literature.
- Memory in literature.
- Communities in literature.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 233 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Joyce's engagement with Dante is a crucial component of all of his work. This title reconsiders the responses to Dante in Joyce's work from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Finnegans Wake. It presents that encounter as an historically complex and contextually determined interaction reflecting the contested development of Dante's reputation, readership and textuality throughout the nineteenth century. This process produced a 'Dante with a difference', a uniquely creative and unorthodox construction of the poet which informed Joyce's lifelong engagement with such works as the Vita Nuova and the Commedia. Tracing the movement through Joyce's writing on exile as a mode of alienation and charting his growing interest in ideas of community, Joyce's Dante shows how awareness of his changing reading of Dante can alter our understanding of one of the Irish writer's lasting thematic preoccupations"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Uneasy orthodoxy: Dante, the Jesuits, and Joyce's first reading; 2. Spiritual-heroic refrigerating apparatus': the exiles of Dante in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Exiles; 3. The poetics of infernal metamorphosis: Stephen's representation in 'Proteus' and 'Scylla and Charybdis'; 4. The mothering of memory: 'Circe' and the Dantean poetics of re-membering; 5. 'The flower that stars the day': Issy, Dantean femininity, and the family as community in Finnegans Wake; Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107167414
- 1107167418
- OCLC:
- 949872086
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