The Strong Spirit: History, Politics and Aesthetics in the Writings of James Joyce 1898-1915

by Andrew Gibson

Scholarly accounts of Joyce's early work have traditionally resorted to two historical keys to try to unlock it: a concept of the Dublin and Ireland in which he grew to adulthood as stagnant and backward, and an emphasis on 1904, the year of the supposedly crucial break in which Joyce quit Ireland for continental Europe and could begin his great modernist literary project. But modernist or no, Joyce's works are always about Ireland, and he remained...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199642508
• ISBN13: 9780199642502
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"