James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism

by Daniel M. Shea

"James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism" examines anew how myth exists in Joyce's fiction. Using Joyce's idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths of Catholicism, this study explores how the rejected religion still acts as a foundational aesthetic for a new mythology of the Modern age starting with "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and maturing within "Ulysses". Like the mythopoets before him--Homer, Dante, Milton, Blake--Joyce consciously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3898215741
• ISBN13: 9783898215749
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Ibidem Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"