Joyce and Reality : The Empirical Strikes Back Hardback
by John Gordon
Part of the Irish Studies series
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages
- Publisher:Syracuse University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2004
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- ISBN:9780815630197
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages
- Publisher:Syracuse University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2004
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- ISBN:9780815630197