Joyce

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James Joyce is recognised as a major figure in the literary scene of the first quarter of the twendeth century, and was probably the most important experimental novelist of the period. His effort to portray the whole meaning of modern life—its fragmentation, its hidden recesses, its underlying patterns—led to a lifelong search for ways of doing so. Realism, myth, symbolism, the "stream of consciousness," multiple planes of reality, all became part of an artistic process that finally involved the disruption and recreation of language itself.
In this study, S. L. Goldberg traces the development of Joyce's work from the early sketches and poems, through his masterpiece, Ulysses, to the ambitious failure of the all-embracing "history of the world", Finnegans Wake. Joyce's preoccupation with the nature of art and the artist's place in society, with the understanding of life and the "joy" he tried to express in his own art, are traced with judgement and discernment. There is an... Tovább

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James Joyce is recognised as a major figure in the literary scene of the first quarter of the twendeth century, and was probably the most important experimental novelist of the period. His effort to portray the whole meaning of modern life—its fragmentation, its hidden recesses, its underlying patterns—led to a lifelong search for ways of doing so. Realism, myth, symbolism, the "stream of consciousness," multiple planes of reality, all became part of an artistic process that finally involved the disruption and recreation of language itself.
In this study, S. L. Goldberg traces the development of Joyce's work from the early sketches and poems, through his masterpiece, Ulysses, to the ambitious failure of the all-embracing "history of the world", Finnegans Wake. Joyce's preoccupation with the nature of art and the artist's place in society, with the understanding of life and the "joy" he tried to express in his own art, are traced with judgement and discernment. There is an illuminating commentary on Joyce's techniques and on the main lines of Joycian criticism.
S. L. Goldberg read English at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford. After obtaining a B.Litt. at Oxford, he returned to teach at Melbourne, and at Sydney, where he was Professor of English Literature. He is now Robert Wallace Professor of English in the University of Melbourne and editor of The Critical Review: Melbourne-Sydney. His publications include The Classical Temper (1961), a study of Joyce, and critical essays on a variety of subjects.
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