Joyce and reality : the empirical strikes back

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Label

Joyce and reality : the empirical strikes back

Title remainder

the empirical strikes back

Statement of responsibility

John Gordon

Creator

• Gordon, John, 1945-

Subject

• Bloom, Molly (Fictitious character)
• Dublin (Ireland) -- In literature
• Empiricism in literature
• Joyce, James, 1882-1941
• Reality in literature
• Bloom, Leopold (Fictitious character)

Language

eng

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
• 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."--Jacket

Member of

• Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.912

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR6019.O9

LC item number

U63 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Irish studies