Joyce, Bakhtin, and the Literary Tradition: Toward a Comparative Cultural Poetics

by M. Keith Booker

Book Overview

Literary studies of James Joyce, perhaps more so than those of any other author, have been enriched by important developments in literary theory in the last twenty-five years. Noting a curious gap in this scholarship, M. Keith Booker brings the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, unquestionably one of the most important literary theorists of this century, to bear on Joyce's relationship to six of his literary predecessors. In clear and readable prose, Booker...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472085212
• ISBN13: 9780472085217
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"