James Joyce and the language of history : Dedalus's nightmare / Robert Spoo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spoo, Robert, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Literature and history--Ireland--History--20th century.

Literature and history.

Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.

Modernism (Literature).

Literature and history--Europe.

History in literature.

Local Subjects:

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772474-4

1-280-44288-3

1-4237-3807-1

0-19-535860-0

1-60129-966-4

OCLC:

191933517