| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-298) and index. |
| Contents |
Patiens ingemiscit : Stephen Dedalus, Ireland, and history -- Only a foreigner would do : Leopold Bloom, Ireland, and Jews -- Gentle will is being roughly handled : 'Scylla and Charybdis' -- A look around : 'wandering rocks' -- History, all that : 'Sirens', 'Cyclops' -- Waking up in Ireland : 'Nausicaa' -- An Irish bull in an English Chinashop : 'oxen of the sun' -- Strangers in my house, bad manners to them! : 'Circe' -- Mingle mangle or gallimaufry : 'Eumaeus' -- An aberration of the light of reason : 'Ithaca' -- The end of all resistance : 'Penelope'. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
The Ireland of Ulysses was still a part of Britain. This book is the first comprehensive, historical study of Joyce's great novel in the context of Anglo-Irish political and cultural relations in the period 1880-1920. The first forty years of Joyce's life also witnessed the emergence of what historians now call English cultural nationalism. This formation was perceptible in a wide range of different discourses. Ulysses engages with many of them. In doing so, it resists, transforms and works to transcend the effects of British rule in Ireland. The novel was written in the years leading up to Irish independence. It is powered by both a will to freedom and a will to justice. But the two do not always coincide, and Joyce does not place his art in the service of any extant political cause. His struggle for independence has its own distinctive mode. The result is a unique work of liberation - and revenge. This eminently learned but lucidly written book transforms our understanding of Joyce's Ulysses. It does so by placing the novel firmly in the historical context of Anglo-Irish political and cultural relations in the period 1880-1920.; Gibson argues that Ulysses is a great work of liberation that also takes a complex form of revenge on the colonizer's culture. |
| Subject |
Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Political and social views.
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Aesthetics.
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941. (OCoLC)fst00035968
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Ulysses (Joyce, James) (OCoLC)fst01356277
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Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and history -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
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Great Britain -- Relations -- Ireland.
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Ireland -- Relations -- Great Britain.
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Ireland -- In literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Aesthetics. (OCoLC)fst00798702
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International relations. (OCoLC)fst00977053
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Literature and history. (OCoLC)fst01000077
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Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst01353986
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Politics and literature. (OCoLC)fst01069960
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
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Ulysses (Joyce) (NL-LeOCL)090521153
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Nationalisme.
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Kolonialisme.
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Postkolonialisme.
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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Ierland.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gibson, Andrew, 1949- Joyce's revenge. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0198184956 (DLC) 2002510699 (OCoLC)49872106 |
| ISBN |
0585486239 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585486239 (electronic bk.) |
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