Joyce in America: Cultural Politics and the Trials of Ulysses - Rilegato

Segall, Jeffrey

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0520077466 ISBN 13: 9780520077461

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr on Demand, 1993

Riassunto

When James Joyce's Ulysses was first published in America, it quickly became a dynamic symbol of both modern art and the modern age. Jeffrey Segall skillfully demonstrates how various political, ideological, and religious allegiances influenced the critical reception and eventual canonization of what is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest novel.

In re-creating the polemical debates that erupted, Segall provides a dramatic reminder of just how challenging and controversial Ulysses was—and is. Seventy years after Ulysses was first banned, the novel remains at the center of contemporary debates among feminist, neo-Marxist, and poststructuralist critics.

Segall allows us the opportunity to view Ulysses from the perspective of its early readers, and he also elucidates key moments in recent American cultural history.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jeffrey Segall teaches English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"I hold [Ulysses] to be the most important expression which the modern age has found . . . to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape."—T.S. Eliot

"A heap of dung, crawling with worms, photographed by a cinema apparatus through a microscope—such is Joyce's work."—Karl Radek

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr on Demand
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520077466
• ISBN 13: 9780520077461
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208