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11%OFFThomas Rice - Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity - 9780252065835 - V9780252065835
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Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity

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Description for Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
Thomas Rice compellingly argues that James Joyce's work resists postmodernist approaches of ambiguity: Joyce never abandoned his conviction that reality exists, regardless of the human ability to represent it.
   
Placing Joyce in his cultural context, Rice first traces the influence of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries on Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He then demonstrates that, when later innovations in science transformed entire worldviews, Joyce recognized conventional literary modes of representation as offering only arbitrary constructions of this reality. Joyce responded in Ulysses by experimenting with perspective, embedding design, and affirming the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252065835
SKU
V9780252065835
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Reviews for Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity
"This is the fullest, most articulate case I know of for Joyce's dialogue with the new sciences. It is well written, lucidly argued, and readable."
Robert Spoo, editor, James Joyce Quarterly

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