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Joyce's Grandfathers
Myth and History in Defoe, Smollett, Sterne, and Joyce
Résumé
In Defoe, Smollett, and Sterne, Joyce found not only earlier challenges to that mode but also "a revolutionary nostalgia for myth that paralleled his own response to his rationalist culture." Yet their works also revealed a clear responsiveness to historical circumstances, creating a tension between the timelessness of myth and the chronology of history. Unlike the realists, these particular eighteenth-century novelists "did not try to conceal the tensions between the synchronic and diachronic thrusts of their fiction but rather explored them openly, unafraid of jagged edges and cacophonous effect." It was these explorations, Warner argues, that Joyce found especially useful in the writing of Ulysses. By compelling us to look backward and to see what he saw in his eighteenth-century forebears, Joyce "recreates" them for us
Détails de l'édition
- ISBN-13
- 9780820314952
- ISBN-10
- 0820314951
- EAN
- 9780820314952
- Éditeur
- University of Georgia press (Athens (Ga.))
- Date de publication
- 1 janvier 1993
- Langue
- en
- Pages
- 193
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
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- page_count BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- publication_date BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- subtitle Google Books · 8 septembre 2026
- summary Google Books · 8 septembre 2026
- title Google Books · 8 septembre 2026