| Joyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism Contributor(s): Norris, Margot (Author) |
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ISBN: 0292722559 ISBN-13: 9780292722552 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: In this revolutionary work, Margot Norris proposes that Joyce's art critiques modernism's fundamental concept of the artist as martyr to bourgeois sensibilities by revealing an awareness of the artist's connections to and constraints within bourgeois society. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| Series: Literary Modernism |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6" W x 9" (0.84 lbs) 255 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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.In sections organized around three mythologized and aestheticized figures in Joyce's works--artist, woman, and child--Norris' readings unravel the web of Joyce's early and late stories, novels, and experimental texts. She shows how Joyce's texts employ multiple mechanisms to expose their own distortions, silences, and lies and reveal connections between art and politics, and art and society.This ambitious new reading not only repositions Joyce within contemporary debates about the ideological assumptions behind modernism and postmodernism, but also urges reconsideration of the phenomenon of modernism itself. It will be of interest and importance to all literary scholars. |