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Joyce and Reality: The Empirical Strikes Back: Irish Studies

Autor John Gordon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2004
Joyce was a realist, but his reality was not ours, writes John Gordon in his new book. Here, he maintains that the shifting styles and techniques of Joyce's works is a function of two interacting realities - the external reality of a particular time and place and the internal reality of a character's mental state. In making this case Gordon offers up a number of new readings: how Stephen Dedalus conceives and composes his villanelle; why the Dubliners story about Little Chandler is titled "A Little Cloud"; why MacDowell suddenly appears and disappears; what is happening when Leopold Bloom looks for two minutes at a beer bottle's label; why the triangle etched at the center of Finnegans Wake doubles itself and grows a pair of circles; why the next to last chapter of Ulysses has, by far, the book's highest incidence of the letter C; and who is the man in the macintosh. Gordon, whose authoritative Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary received critical acclaim and is considered one of the standard references, revises - and challenges - the received version of that reality. For instance, Joyce features ghost visitations, telepathy, and other para-normal phenomena not as "flights into fantasy" but because he believed in the real possibility of such occurrences.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780815630197
ISBN-10: 0815630190
Pagini: 338
Dimensiuni: 165 x 242 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Syracuse University Press
Seriile Irish Studies, Irish Studies


Notă biografică

John Gordon is professor of english at Connecticut College. He is the author of James Joyce's Metamorphoses; "Finnegans Wake" A Plot Summary; Physiology and the Literary Imagination; and many articles on modern literature.