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Joyce´s Dante: Exile, Memory, and Community
James Robinson
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Description for Joyce´s Dante: Exile, Memory, and Community
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Joyce's engagement with Dante is a crucial component of all of his work. This title reconsiders the responses to Dante in Joyce's work from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Finnegans Wake. It presents that encounter as an historically complex and contextually determined interaction reflecting the contested development of Dante's reputation, readership and textuality throughout the nineteenth century. This process produced a 'Dante with a difference', a uniquely creative and unorthodox construction of the poet which informed Joyce's lifelong engagement with such works as the Vita Nuova and the Commedia. Tracing the movement through Joyce's writing ... Read more
Joyce's engagement with Dante is a crucial component of all of his work. This title reconsiders the responses to Dante in Joyce's work from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Finnegans Wake. It presents that encounter as an historically complex and contextually determined interaction reflecting the contested development of Dante's reputation, readership and textuality throughout the nineteenth century. This process produced a 'Dante with a difference', a uniquely creative and unorthodox construction of the poet which informed Joyce's lifelong engagement with such works as the Vita Nuova and the Commedia. Tracing the movement through Joyce's writing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107167414
SKU
V9781107167414
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Ref
99-1
About James Robinson
James Robinson is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of English Studies, Durham University.
Reviews for Joyce´s Dante: Exile, Memory, and Community
'Such writing catches the spirit of Joyce's enterprise lucidly. Robinson does not produce definitive evidence that Joyce knew about the misreading of 'Violetta' as 'Nuvoletta', but it is exactly the kind of messy creative mistake that Joyce relished throughout his work.' Matthew Creasy, Translation and Literature '... Robinson delivers another virtuoso demonstration of the power of his technique in deploying ... Read more