Author

Publication

2002 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

76,500 words, Guess

Page Count

306 pages

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • Goodreads999495
  • LibraryThing462231
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002510699
  • OCLC Control Number49872106
  • Better World Books9780198184959
  • Open LibraryOL3656497M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.912
  • LCCPR6019.O9 U6465 2002
  • LCCPR6019.O9U6465 2002

Description

"The Ireland of Ulysses was still a part of Britain. This book is the first comprehensive, historical study of Joyce's great novel in the context of Anglo-Irish political and cultural relations in the period 1880-1920. The first forty years of Joyce's life also witnessed the emergence of what historians now call English cultural nationalism. This formation was perceptible in a wide range of different discourses. Ulysses engages with many of them. In doing so, it resists, transforms, and works to transcend the effects of British rule in Ireland. The novel was written in the years leading up to Irish independence. It is powered by both a will to freedom and a will to justice. But the two do not always coincide, and Joyce did not place his art in the service of any existing political cause. His struggle for independence has its own distinctive mode. The result is a work of liberation - and revenge."--Jacket.

First Sentence

The critical view of the 'Telemachiad' has recently changed quite markedly and radically.

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Other Editions

  • Joyce's revenge: history, politics, and aesthetics in UlyssesOxford University Press2002-01-01

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