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Joyce and Reality: The Empirical Strikes Back (Irish Studies)
John Gordon
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Description for Joyce and Reality: The Empirical Strikes Back (Irish Studies)
Hardcover. "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. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 653.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Irish Studies
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815630197
SKU
V9780815630197
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About John Gordon
John Gordon, professor of English at Connecticut College, has contributed to such journals as the James Joyce Quarterly and Modern Fiction Studies. He is the author of James Joyce's Metamorphoses and Finnegans Wake; A Plot Summary.
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