Joyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism

by Margot Norris

Book Overview

James Joyce has long been viewed as a literary modernist who helped define and uphold modernism's fundamental concepts of the artist as martyr to bourgeois sensibilities and of an idealistic faith in artistic freedom. In this revolutionary work, however, Margot Norris proposes that Joyce's art actually critiques these modernist tenets by revealing an awareness of the artist's connections to and constraints within bourgeois society.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292722559
• ISBN13: 9780292722552
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"