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Overview"""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 works is 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 MacDowell suddenly appears and disappears; what is happening when Leopold Bloom looks for two minutes 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 to last chapter of Ulysses has, by far, the book's highest incidence of the letter C; and who is the man in the macintosh. Gordon, whose authoritative Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary received critical acclaim and is considered one of the standard references, revises - and challenges - the received version of that reality. For instance, Joyce features ghost visitations, telepathy, and other para-normal phenomena not as ""flights into fantas" Full Product DetailsAuthor: John GordonPublisher: Syracuse University Press Imprint: Syracuse University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9780815630197ISBN 10: 0815630190 Pages: 308 Publication Date: 30 April 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsThe author of two well-received books on Joyce--James Joyce's Metamorphoses and Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary--Gordon continues his engaging and useful explication of Joyce's most difficult writing. The author's abiding premise is that Joyce, like Hemingway, was a realist who wished to 'reduce the veil between literature and life.' Unlike many contemporary critics, however, Gordon argues that Joyce's reality differs from the present reality, drawing on ideas current in his time. . . . Gordon sees Joyce's linguistic pyrotechnics as rooted in the nativist philology of the late 19th century. The turn-of-the-century fascination with the occult as a science figures prominently in Joyce's realism, giving an 'Orphic' dimension to his thought and writing. Gordon adeptly traces and provocatively argues these points.--Choice The author of two well-received books on Joyce--James Joyce's Metamorphoses and Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary--Gordon continues his engaging and useful explication of Joyce's most difficult writing. The author's abiding premise is that Joyce, like Hemingway, was a realist who wished to 'reduce the veil between literature and life.' Unlike many contemporary critics, however, Gordon argues that Joyce's reality differs from the present reality, drawing on ideas current in his time. . . . Gordon sees Joyce's linguistic pyrotechnics as rooted in the nativist philology of the late 19th century. The turn-of-the-century fascination with the occult as a science figures prominently in Joyce's realism, giving an 'Orphic' dimension to his thought and writing. Gordon adeptly traces and provocatively argues these points.-- Choice Author InformationJohn Gordon, professor of English at Connecticut College, has contributed to such journals as the James Joyce Quarterly and Modern Fiction Studies. He is the author of James Joyce's Metamorphoses and Finnegans Wake; A Plot Summary. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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