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Author Spoo, Robert E.

Title James Joyce and the language of history : Dedalus's nightmare / Robert Spoo.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 195 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-186) and index.
Contents A NOTE ON CITATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Joyce's Attitudes Toward History: Rome, 1906-7; 2 Fabricated Ghosts: A Metahistorical Reading of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 3 Teleology, Monocausality, and Marriage in Ulysses; 4 "Nestor" and "Proteus": History, Language, Intertextuality; 5 "Aeolus," Rhetoric, and History; 6 The Language of Literary History: "Oxen of the Sun," "Circe," and Beyond; NOTES; INDEX.
Summary History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Stephen Dedalus's famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce's creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome in 1906-07 to the completion of Ulysses in 1922, cannot be understood apart from the ferment of historical thought that dominated the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing James Joyce's historiographic art to its formative contexts, Spoo reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of hi.
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Subject Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- History.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Language and languages.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941. (OCoLC)fst00035968
Literature and history -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland.
Literature and history -- Europe.
History in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
History in literature. (OCoLC)fst00958338
Language and languages. (OCoLC)fst00992154
Literature and history. (OCoLC)fst01000077
Modernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01024455
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Indexed Term English fiction
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Spoo, Robert E. James Joyce and the language of history. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994 (DLC) 93047269
ISBN 1423738071 (electronic bk.)
9781423738077 (electronic bk.)
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