Free Download James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome (Historicizing Modernism) by Wim Van Mierlo
English | October 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1350169889 | True EPUB | 242 pages | 0.7 MB
As a genetic study, this book uncovers the creative DNA of James Joyce’s oeuvre by looking at the cultural forces that shaped him and that he in turn shaped in the creation of his books, developing a two-way relationship with history, memory and national identity. Following his development as an author, it revisits and redirects Joyce’s attitudes towards the Irish Revival. From Chamber Music, through Ulysses to Finnegans Wake Joyce sought to define a cultural identity that went, in many respects, against the mainstream, but that nonetheless belonged to the wider Revivalist project with which it shared certain characteristics and aspirations.