Joyce and reality
the empirical strikes back
by Gordon, John
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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 work are 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 Gerty MacDowell suddenly appears and disappears; what is happening when Leopold Bloom stares for two minutes on end 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 at last chapter of Ulysses has, by far, the book's highest incidence of the letter C; and who is the man in the macintosh."--BOOK JACKET.
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Empiricism in literature, In literature, Leopold Bloom (Fictitious character), Molly Bloom (Fictitious character), Reality in literature, Joyce, james, 1882-1941, Bloom, leopold (fictitious character), Bloom, molly (fictitious character), Empiricism, Ireland, in literaturePeople
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Joyce and reality: the empirical strikes back
2004, Syracuse University Press
in English
- 1st ed.
0815630190 9780815630197
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-314) and index.
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