Joyce/Lowry : critical perspectives / / Patrick A. McCarthy and Paul Tiessen, editors ; contributors, Chris Ackerley [and eleven others]

• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1997; ©1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.912
• Soggetto topico: Modernism (Literature) - England; Modernism (Literature) - Ireland
• Persona (resp. second.): McCarthyPatrick A. <1945->; TiessenPaul; AckerleyChris
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on References; Introduction; 1 Midsummer Madness and the Day of the Dead: Joyce, Lowry, and Expressionism ; DISTANT VOICES; Notes; Works Cited; 2 Clown Meets Cops: Comedy and Paranoia in Under the Volcano and Ulysses ; Works Cited; 3 ""Well, of course, if we knew all the things"": Coincidence and Design in Ulysses and Under the Volcano ; Notes; Works Cited; 4 Ulysses and Under the Volcano: The Difficulty of Loving ; Notes; Works Cited; 5 Nationalism at the Bar: Anti-Semitism in Ulysses and Under the Volcano ; Notes ; Untitled 6 The Construction of Femininity in Ulysses and Under the Volcano: A Bakhtinian Analysis of the Late Draft Versions ; Notes; Works Cited; 7 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ultramarine: Two Exercises in Identification ; Notes; Works Cited; 8 Syphilisation and Its Discontents: Somatic Indications of Psychological Ills in Joyce and Lowry; The Body as Literal Figure; The Body as Rhetorical Figure; Notes; Works Cited; 9 The World as Book, the Book as Machine: Art and Life in Joyce and Lowry; Works Cited; 10 Literary Modernism and Cinema: Two Approaches; Works Cited ; 11 The Filmmaker as Critic: Huston's Under the Volcano and The Dead Huston's Films; Filming Joyce; Filming Lowry; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: While James Joyce was a central figure of high modernism, Malcom Lowry spoke for the next generation of modernist writers and, despite his denials, was almost certainly influenced by Joyce. Wherever the truth lies, there are correspondences and differences to be explored between Joyce and Lowry that are far more interesting than the question of direct influence. Despite numerous differences, their works have much in common: verbal richness, experimentation with narrative structure and perspective, a fascination with cultural and historical forces as well as with the process of artistic creatio
• Titolo autorizzato: Joyce
• ISBN: 0-8131-5939-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807607003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II