James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's Nightmare

by Robert Spoo

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"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Stephen Dedalus's famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce's creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome in 1906-07 to the completion of Ulysses in 1922, cannot be understood apart from the ferment of historical thought that dominated the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195087496

ISBN13:9780195087499

Release Date:September 1994

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"

Related Subjects

Education & Reference English Literature Ethics Ethics & Morality Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Modernism Movements & Periods Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences

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