Joyce and reality

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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.

• 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 literature

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2004

Syracuse University Press · İngilizce · 338 sayfa
ISBN 0815630190