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Joyce's Metamorphosis
Stanley Sultan
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Description for Joyce's Metamorphosis
Using the fiction the young James Joyce was writing from 1904 to 1906, this study traces the process by which Joyce evolved into the mature artist. The author argues that Joyce enriched his fiction with a series of elegant strategies that made him his own esoteric subject. Series: Florida James Joyce Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 3. Weight in Grams: 426.
The respected Joyce critic Stanley Sultan describes his newest book as philological biography. Using the fiction the young James Joyce was writing from 1904 to 1906, he traces the process by which Joyce evolved into the mature artist. Sultan argues that Joyce enriched his fiction with a ""poetics of autobiography,"" a series of elegant strategies that made him his own esoteric subject and that reached its final stage in Finnegans Wake. He compares Joyce's coming of age as a writer with D. H. Lawrence's parallel and exactly contrary development. While Sultan sees Lawrence as using personal experience as a pragmatic ... Read more
The respected Joyce critic Stanley Sultan describes his newest book as philological biography. Using the fiction the young James Joyce was writing from 1904 to 1906, he traces the process by which Joyce evolved into the mature artist. Sultan argues that Joyce enriched his fiction with a ""poetics of autobiography,"" a series of elegant strategies that made him his own esoteric subject and that reached its final stage in Finnegans Wake. He compares Joyce's coming of age as a writer with D. H. Lawrence's parallel and exactly contrary development. While Sultan sees Lawrence as using personal experience as a pragmatic ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Florida James Joyce
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813021058
SKU
V9780813021058
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Reviews for Joyce's Metamorphosis
"Sultan brings [the distinction between art and autobiography] to center stage... His is a study teachers can profit from and direct students to, for it is accessible and clearly and confidently written....A brilliant reading of Joyce's work." - Thomas R Staley, University of Texas, Austin