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Format: 1 online resource (254 p.)

ISBN: 9780822382768

Content: For James Joyce, perhaps the most crucial of all human faculties was memory. It represented both the central thread of identity and a looking glass into the past. It served as an avenue into other minds, an essential part of the process of literary composition and narration, and the connective tissue of cultural tradition. In Joyce’s Book of Memory John S. Rickard demonstrates how Joyce’s body of work—Ulysses in particular—operates as a “mnemotechnic,” a technique for preserving and remembering personal, social, and cultural pasts.Offering a detailed reading of Joyce and his methods of writing, Rickard investigates the uses of memory in Ulysses and analyzes its role in the formation of personal identity. The importance of forgetting and repression, and the deadliness of nostalgia and habit in Joyce’s paralyzed Dublin are also revealed. Noting the power of spontaneous, involuntary recollection, Rickard locates Joyce’s mnemotechnic within its historical and philosophical contexts. As he examines how Joyce responded to competing intellectual paradigms, Rickard explores Ulysses’ connection to medieval, modern, and (what would become) postmodern worldviews, as well as its display of tensions between notions of subjective and universal memory. Finally, Joyce’s Book of Memory illustrates how Joyce distilled subjectivity, history, and cultural identity into a text that offers a panoramic view of the modern period.This book will interest students and scholars of Joyce, as well as others engaged in the study of modern and postmodern literature.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1 Personal Memory and the Construction of the Self -- , 2 The Past as Obstruction -- , 3 Memory, Destiny, and the Limits of the Self -- , 4 Joyce's Mnemotechnic: Textual Memory in Ulysses -- , 5 Intertextual Memory -- , Conclusion -- , Appendix: "Nausicaa" and The Golden Ass -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822382768

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822382768

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Format: 1 online resource (256 p.)

ISBN: 1-282-91986-5 , 9786612919862 , 0-8223-8276-8

Series Statement: e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Content: Discusses Ulysses arguing that through the operation of memory, it mimics the working of the human mind and achieves its status as one of the most intellectual achievements of the 20th century.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Personal Memory and the Construction of the Self -- The Past as Obstruction -- Memory, Destiny, and the Limits of the Self -- Joyce's Mnemotechnic: Textual Memory in Ulysses -- Intertextual Memory -- Conclusion. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-2170-X

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-2158-0

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822382768