Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce

Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce
ISBN-10
1350236535
ISBN-13
9781350236530
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
2021-11-18
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
David P. Rando

Description

Hope and future are not the terms with which James Joyce has usually been read, but this book paints a picture of Joyce's fiction in which hope and future assume the primary colours. Rando explores how Joyce's texts, as early as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, delineate a complex hope that is oriented toward the future with restlessness, dissatisfaction, and invention. He examines how Joyce envisions alternatives to the prevailing conventions of hope throughout his works and, in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, develops formal techniques of spatializing hope to contemplate it from all sides. Casting fresh light on the ways in which hope animates key aspects of Joyce's approach to literary content and form, Rando moves beyond the limitations of negative critique and literary historicism to present a Joyce who thinks agilely about the future, politics, and possibility.

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