James Joyce and the exilic imagination /Michael Patrick Gillespie.

Gillespie, Michael Patrick,

James Joyce and the exilic imagination /Michael Patrick Gillespie. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2015. - 1 online resource - The Florida James Joyce series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

The context of exile: a critical introduction -- Joyce's exilic self-conception -- Dubliners: the first glimpse of Ireland from abroad -- Stephen Dedalus's lifelong exile -- Re-viewing Richard: nostalgia and rancor in exiles -- Ulysses: exiles on main street -- Finnegans wake and the exile's return.

In this book, Michael Gillespie provides new readings of James Joyce's main oeuvre through the lens of exile studies, and, in doing so, challenges the tendency in Joyce criticism to give more weight to reading that stress his negative view of Ireland.



9780813055374


Joyce, James, 1882-1941 --Criticism and interpretation.


Authors, Exiled.
Exiles' writings.


Electronic Books.

PR6019 / .J364 2015