The Conscience of James Joyce

by Darcy O'Brien

Book Overview

James Joyce, the great and bold literary innovator of our time, was also a rebel in life, a self-exile from family, nation, and religion. Criticism of Joyce, when it has not been purely technical, has sought in Joyce's work ideas as radical as his techniques and as rebellious as his life. Mr. O'Brien discovers that Joyce was neither morally revolutionary nor morally neutral. Instead, Joyce emerges as an Irishman clinging to a conception of human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691622809
• ISBN13: 9780691622804
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"