James Joyce and classical modernism / Leah Culligan Flack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flack, Leah Culligan, author.

Series:

Classical receptions in twentieth-century writing.

Classical receptions in twentieth-century writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Joyce, James.

Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 158 pages).

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce's defiant, innovative creativity and cannot be separated from what is now recognized as his modernist aesthetic.Responding to a long-standing critical paradigm that has viewed the classical world as a means of granting a coherent order, shape, and meaning to Joyce's modernist innovations, Leah Flack explores how and why Joyce's fiction deploys the classical as the language of the new. This study tracks Joyce's sensitive, on-going readings of classical literature from his earliest work at the turn of the twentieth century through to the appearance of Ulysses in 1922, the watershed year of high modernist writing. In these decades, Joyce read ancient and modern literature alongside one another to develop what Flack calls his classical modernist aesthetic, which treats the classical tradition as an ally to modernist innovation. This aesthetic first comes to full fruition in Ulysses , which self-consciously deploys the classical tradition to defend stylistic experimentation as a way to resist static, paralyzing notions of the past. Analysing Joyce's work through his career from his early essays, Flack ends by considering the rich afterlives of Joyce's classical modernist project, with particular attention to contemporary works by Alison Bechdel and Maya Lang."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Series editor preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations

Introduction: Reading and Reception in Joyce's Classical Modernism 1Joyce's Classical Passwords 2"So let the ruins rot': Joyce and Historical Apathy 3Joyce, Homer, and the Seductions of Reading Conclusion: The Pleasures of (Not) Reading Joyce and the Classics

Notes Bibliography Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350004146

1350004146

9781350004115

1350004111

9781350004122

135000412X

OCLC:

1130013678