In sections organized around three mythologized and aestheticized figures in Joyce's worksartist, woman, and childNorris' readings "unravel the web" of Joyce's early and late stories, novels, and experimental texts. She shows how Joyce's texts employ multiple mechanisms to expose their own distortions, silences, and lies and reveal connections between art and politics, and art and society.
This ambitious new reading not only repositions Joyce within contemporary debates about the ideological assumptions behind modernism and postmodernism, but also urges reconsideration of the phenomenon of modernism itself. It will be of interest and importance to all literary scholars.
In sections organized around three mythologized and aestheticized figures in Joyce's worksartist, woman, and childNorris' readings "unravel the web" of Joyce's early and late stories, novels, and experimental texts. She shows how Joyce's texts employ multiple mechanisms to expose their own distortions, silences, and lies and reveal connections between art and politics, and art and society.
This ambitious new reading not only repositions Joyce within contemporary debates about the ideological assumptions behind modernism and postmodernism, but also urges reconsideration of the phenomenon of modernism itself. It will be of interest and importance to all literary scholars.
Joyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism
255Joyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism
255Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780292722552 |
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Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
Publication date: | 07/15/2009 |
Series: | Literary Modernism |
Pages: | 255 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |