| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 338 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Irish studies |
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Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-314) and index. |
| Contents |
A portrait of the artist : a domino theory -- "A little cloud" : a nebular hypothesis -- Distillates, counterparts -- The Orphic "sirens," the Orphic Ulysses -- The erotic gerty, the pornographic gerty -- Henry's flower -- Approaching reality in "Oxen of the sun" -- Bloom as Thomas De Quincey -- Bloom's Bell -- Dublin : sun, moon, stars -- Bloom's birth star -- Plotinus, Spencer again, and the proliferant continuances of "Oxen of the sun" -- Approaching reality in "Circe" -- "Circe" again: thirty-two anomalies -- "Circe" yet again : an operatic finale -- Haines's hallucination -- "Ithaca" as the letter C -- Passport to eternity -- The mysterious man in the MacIntosh : a prize titbits story by Mr. James Joyce -- Seeing things in Finnegans Wake. |
| Summary |
"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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
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Bloom, Leopold (Fictitious character)
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Bloom, Molly (Fictitious character)
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Dublin (Ireland) -- In literature.
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Empiricism in literature.
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Reality in literature.
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| ISBN |
0815630190 (alk. paper) |
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9780815630197 (alk. paper) |
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