Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics, and Aesthetics in Ulysses

ISBN-13: 9780198184959 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str.

Andrew Gibson

Opis

This eminently learned book transforms our understanding of Joyce's Ulysses by placing the novel firmly in the historical context of Anglo-Irish political and cultural relations in the period 1880-1920. Gibson argues that Ulysses is a great work of liberation that also takes a complex form of revenge on the colonizer's culture.

Recenzje

Gibson's book presents a convincing and fruitful method to interpret Ulysses. It also - unlike many students of Joyce - takes Joyce seriously as both a thinker and an artist ... The worth of any theory is not in its cleverness but in its explanatory value. On this basis Gibson's book is a success and a most refreshing one.

O autorze

Andrew Gibson is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Royal Holloway University of London