James Joyce and cinematicity : before and after film / Keith Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Keith, 1958- author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Joyce, James.

Intermediality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

In this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian culture's emergent 'cinematicity' as a key creative driver of Joyce's experimental fiction, showing how Joyce's style and themes share the cinematograph's roots in Victorian optical entertainment and science.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

FIGURES

INTRODUCTION

1 ‘I BAR THE MAGIC LANTERN’: DUBLINERS AND PRE-FILMIC CINEMATICITY

2 AN INDIVIDUATING RHYTHM: PICTURING TIME IN A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

3 ‘BUILDING-VISION-MACHINE’: ULYSSES AS MOVING PANORAMA

CODA: THE MEDIA-CULTURAL IMAGINARY OF FINNEGANS WAKE

CONCLUSION: BEFORE AND AFTER FILM

SELECT VISIOGRAPHY

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4744-9091-3

1-4744-0249-6

OCLC:

1312727188