James Robinson (University of Durham)

Joyce's Dante

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Produktbeschreibung

This title explores the ways in which James Joyce read the medieval poet Dante Alighieri and appropriated his works in his own writing. Placing Joyce's interest in Dante within his historical context, Robinson shows how Dante enabled Joyce to develop the key themes of exile and community within his work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781107167414
• ISBN-10: 1107167418
• Artikelnr.: 45154329

Autorenporträt

James Robinson was awarded his doctorate from Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Pentecostal Origins: Early Pentecostalism in Ireland in the Context of the British Isles (2005) and Divine Healing: The Formative Years, 1830-1890 (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

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.