
Joyce's Dante
Exile, Memory, and Community
James Robinson(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 14. October 2016
Book
Hardback
242 pages
978-1-107-16741-4 (ISBN)
Description
Joyce's engagement with Dante is a crucial component of all of his work. This title reconsiders the responses to Dante in Joyce's work from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Finnegans Wake. It presents that encounter as an historically complex and contextually determined interaction reflecting the contested development of Dante's reputation, readership and textuality throughout the nineteenth century. This process produced a 'Dante with a difference', a uniquely creative and unorthodox construction of the poet which informed Joyce's lifelong engagement with such works as the Vita Nuova and the Commedia. Tracing the movement through Joyce's writing on exile as a mode of alienation and charting his growing interest in ideas of community, Joyce's Dante shows how awareness of his changing reading of Dante can alter our understanding of one of the Irish writer's lasting thematic preoccupations.
Reviews / Votes
'Such writing catches the spirit of Joyce's enterprise lucidly. Robinson does not produce definitive evidence that Joyce knew about the misreading of 'Violetta' as 'Nuvoletta', but it is exactly the kind of messy creative mistake that Joyce relished throughout his work.' Matthew Creasy, Translation and Literature '... Robinson delivers another virtuoso demonstration of the power of his technique in deploying exhaustive philological retention of textual archives.' William Franke, James Joyce QuarterlyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
512 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-16741-4 (9781107167414)
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Person
James Robinson is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of English Studies, Durham University.
Content
Introduction; 1. Uneasy orthodoxy: Dante, the Jesuits, and Joyce's first reading; 2. Spiritual-heroic refrigerating apparatus': the exiles of Dante in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Exiles; 3. The poetics of infernal metamorphosis: Stephen's representation in 'Proteus' and 'Scylla and Charybdis'; 4. The mothering of memory: 'Circe' and the Dantean poetics of re-membering; 5. 'The flower that stars the day': Issy, Dantean femininity, and the family as community in Finnegans Wake; Epilogue.