Joyce's Dante

Exile, Memory, and Community

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Joyce's engagement with Dante is a crucial component of all of his work. This title reconsiders the responses to Dante in Joyce's work from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Finnegans Wake. It presents that encounter as an historically complex and contextually determined interaction reflecting the contested development of Dante's reputation, readership and textuality throughout the nineteenth century. This process produced a 'Dante with a difference', a uniquely creative and unorthodox construction of the poet which informed Joyce's lifelong engagement with such works as the Vita Nuova and the Commedia. Tracing the movement through Joyce's writing on exile as a mode of alienation and charting his growing interest in ideas of community, Joyce's Dante shows how awareness of his changing reading of Dante can alter our understanding of one of the Irish writer's lasting thematic preoccupations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-10-14
Mått:160 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107167414

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James Robinson is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of English Studies, Durham University.

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'Such writing catches the spirit of Joyce's enterprise lucidly. Robinson does not produce definitive evidence that Joyce knew about the misreading of 'Violetta' as 'Nuvoletta', but it is exactly the kind of messy creative mistake that Joyce relished throughout his work.' Matthew Creasy, Translation and Literature

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Uneasy orthodoxy: Dante, the Jesuits, and Joyce's first reading; 2. Spiritual-heroic refrigerating apparatus': the exiles of Dante in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Exiles; 3. The poetics of infernal metamorphosis: Stephen's representation in 'Proteus' and 'Scylla and Charybdis'; 4. The mothering of memory: 'Circe' and the Dantean poetics of re-membering; 5. 'The flower that stars the day': Issy, Dantean femininity, and the family as community in Finnegans Wake; Epilogue.