Joyce's Book of Memory: The Mnemotechnic of UlyssesDuke University Press, 1999. jan. 6. - 240 oldal For James Joyce, perhaps the most crucial of all human faculties was memory. It represented both the central thread of identity and a looking glass into the past. It served as an avenue into other minds, an essential part of the process of literary composition and narration, and the connective tissue of cultural tradition. In Joyce’s Book of Memory John S. Rickard demonstrates how Joyce’s body of work—Ulysses in particular—operates as a “mnemotechnic,” a technique for preserving and remembering personal, social, and cultural pasts. Offering a detailed reading of Joyce and his methods of writing, Rickard investigates the uses of memory in Ulysses and analyzes its role in the formation of personal identity. The importance of forgetting and repression, and the deadliness of nostalgia and habit in Joyce’s paralyzed Dublin are also revealed. Noting the power of spontaneous, involuntary recollection, Rickard locates Joyce’s mnemotechnic within its historical and philosophical contexts. As he examines how Joyce responded to competing intellectual paradigms, Rickard explores Ulysses’ connection to medieval, modern, and (what would become) postmodern worldviews, as well as its display of tensions between notions of subjective and universal memory. Finally, Joyce’s Book of Memory illustrates how Joyce distilled subjectivity, history, and cultural identity into a text that offers a panoramic view of the modern period. This book will interest students and scholars of Joyce, as well as others engaged in the study of modern and postmodern literature. |
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... tion was memory " ( Budgen , Myselves 187 ) , and a remarkable number of those who have written their own reminiscences of Joyce describe his " marvelous " or " prodigious " memory . Budgen once told Clive Hart that Joyce " prized ...
... tion was memory " ( Budgen , Myselves 187 ) , and a remarkable number of those who have written their own reminiscences of Joyce describe his " marvelous " or " prodigious " memory . Budgen once told Clive Hart that Joyce " prized ...
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... tion — as determined partly by his general education , his reading , and his comments about his own writing — supplied him with various and con- flicting notions of what memory is and how it works . I will expose the traces of these ...
... tion — as determined partly by his general education , his reading , and his comments about his own writing — supplied him with various and con- flicting notions of what memory is and how it works . I will expose the traces of these ...
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... the medieval systems of order that dominated Joyce's education and a growing modern sense of disrup- tion , disorder , and decay . Eco neatly captures this fundamental tension in Ulysses in the Wakean term " chaosmos , " 4.
... the medieval systems of order that dominated Joyce's education and a growing modern sense of disrup- tion , disorder , and decay . Eco neatly captures this fundamental tension in Ulysses in the Wakean term " chaosmos , " 4.
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... tion , and coherence in life are locked into an unresolvable tension with conflicting discourses which imply that randomness and incoherence may in fact be the ultimate grounds of human experience . One example of this sort of ...
... tion , and coherence in life are locked into an unresolvable tension with conflicting discourses which imply that randomness and incoherence may in fact be the ultimate grounds of human experience . One example of this sort of ...
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... tion of imperfect reflections of perfect forms , Mnemosyne has gradually lost her stature in the West . Once the Mother of the Muses , the inspira- tion of poets , a virtually omniscient deity , she has become mechanical : a mirror that ...
... tion of imperfect reflections of perfect forms , Mnemosyne has gradually lost her stature in the West . Once the Mother of the Muses , the inspira- tion of poets , a virtually omniscient deity , she has become mechanical : a mirror that ...
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