About this title: "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. Tracing James Joyce's historiographic art to its formative contexts, Spoo reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: OUP USA
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780195087499ISBN:0195087496
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780195087499ISBN:0195087496
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 235x154. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (206) tracing joyce's historiographic art to its formative contexts, from his sojourn in rome in 1906-7 to the completion of ulysses in 1922, spoo reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of history, forging a new language that both dramatizes and redefines that problem. (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780195087499ISBN:0195087496
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: "oxford University Press, USA"
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780195087499ISBN:0195087496
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780195087499ISBN:0195087496
Description: New. "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... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, USA, New York
Date Published: 1 Sep 1994
ISBN-13:9780195087499ISBN:0195087496
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