James Joyce and the language of history :: Dedalus's nightmare /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Spoo, Robert E.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 195 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-186) and index.
ISBN:1423738071
9781423738077
1601299664
9781601299666
9780195087499
0195087496
1280442883
9781280442889

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