James Joyce and the Language of History
Download or Read eBook James Joyce and the Language of History PDF written by Robert Spoo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Robert Spoo |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1994-09-29 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780195358605 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0195358600 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis James Joyce and the Language of History by : Robert Spoo
Book excerpt: "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 history, forging a new language that both dramatizes and redefines that problem.
