Joyce's Book of Memory: The Mnemotechnic of UlyssesDuke University Press, 06/01/1999 - 240 páginas 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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... characters " ( Essay 2.8 ) , paper that can only be inscribed by one form or another of individual experience . Many theories of mind that were still taken seriously in Joyce's lifetime have been pushed into our own " cultural ...
... characters " ( Essay 2.8 ) , paper that can only be inscribed by one form or another of individual experience . Many theories of mind that were still taken seriously in Joyce's lifetime have been pushed into our own " cultural ...
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... character's arrival at or attainment of that goal . According to Brooks , plot itself involves a tension between forces that work to defer , dissolve , or defeat desire and those that work to further and resolve it . Brooks uses Freud's ...
... character's arrival at or attainment of that goal . According to Brooks , plot itself involves a tension between forces that work to defer , dissolve , or defeat desire and those that work to further and resolve it . Brooks uses Freud's ...
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... characters and readers must travel be- fore they can reach their goal . While the classic novels of the nineteenth century often deliver a textual Ithaca — a neatly woven extinction of nar- rative desire through the final marriage ...
... characters and readers must travel be- fore they can reach their goal . While the classic novels of the nineteenth century often deliver a textual Ithaca — a neatly woven extinction of nar- rative desire through the final marriage ...
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... characters and readers struggle to come to terms with the past in order to move toward the resolution of the desire for closure — for Ithaca . Just as Ulysses seeks to return to his wife , his son , and his kingdom — to put all right ...
... characters and readers struggle to come to terms with the past in order to move toward the resolution of the desire for closure — for Ithaca . Just as Ulysses seeks to return to his wife , his son , and his kingdom — to put all right ...
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... characters and the frustrating cityscape of Dublin . These char- acters and their often paralyzing environment present the reader with many problems in the past and the ways by which the past is accessed and interpreted through memory ...
... characters and the frustrating cityscape of Dublin . These char- acters and their often paralyzing environment present the reader with many problems in the past and the ways by which the past is accessed and interpreted through memory ...
Índice
Personal Memory and the Construction of the Self | 15 |
The Past as Obstruction | 45 |
Memory Destiny and the Limits of the Self | 87 |
Joyces Mnemotechnic Textual Memory in Ulysses | 118 |
Intertextual Memory | 167 |
Conclusion | 181 |
Nausicaa and The Golden Ass | 199 |
Notes | 203 |
Bibliography | 223 |
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