The Conscience of James Joyce (Princeton Legacy Library, 2155) - Softcover

O'Brien, Darcy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691622809 ISBN 13: 9780691622804

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2015

Synopsis

James Joyce, the great and bold literary innovator of our time, was also a rebel in life, a self-exile from family, nation, and religion. Criticism of Joyce, when it has not been purely technical, has sought in Joyce's work ideas as radical as his techniques and as rebellious as his life. Mr. O’Brien discovers that Joyce was neither morally revolutionary nor morally neutral. Instead, Joyce emerges as an Irishman clinging to a conception of human nature largely derived from the Irish Catholic background he so vehemently denounced. In this study of Joyce’s work, from his early poems through Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Mr. O’Brien argues that Joyce eventually achieved, in his books, a comic perspective on the follies of mankind.

Originally published in 1968.

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About the Author:

Darcy O Brien is the author of the novels"A Way of Life, Like Any Other", which won the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel in 1978, and"The Silver Spooner", as well as the nonfiction bestseller"Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers". He died in 1998.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0691622809
• ISBN 13: 9780691622804
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276