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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... present and future . His fascination with memory amounts to a philosophical and psycho- logical obsession that profoundly influences not only the content but the form of his work . The various forms of memory — psychological , philo ...
... present and future . His fascination with memory amounts to a philosophical and psycho- logical obsession that profoundly influences not only the content but the form of his work . The various forms of memory — psychological , philo ...
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... constructions of what is " natural " or instinctive or vital are present in Ulysses only as repressed elements in the cultural unconscious , part of a " complex nostalgia " for holistic discourses that the novel INTRODUCTION 5.
... constructions of what is " natural " or instinctive or vital are present in Ulysses only as repressed elements in the cultural unconscious , part of a " complex nostalgia " for holistic discourses that the novel INTRODUCTION 5.
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... present as on the past . Activist memory is always problematic , for many activist writers on memory doubt the availability of any final truth at the end of their search . Memory is for them a sifting back through language that cannot ...
... present as on the past . Activist memory is always problematic , for many activist writers on memory doubt the availability of any final truth at the end of their search . Memory is for them a sifting back through language that cannot ...
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... present in the text and into questions of narrative . By examining the ways in which Ulysses incorporates memory and works through the tensions implied above , we can see how the novel stages the clash of conflicting paradigms and how ...
... present in the text and into questions of narrative . By examining the ways in which Ulysses incorporates memory and works through the tensions implied above , we can see how the novel stages the clash of conflicting paradigms and how ...
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... present moment and move the charac- ter dynamically into the future . While voluntary or hermeneutic memory depends on a conscious investigation of , and intervention in , the past as the key to the future , proleptic or dynamic memory ...
... present moment and move the charac- ter dynamically into the future . While voluntary or hermeneutic memory depends on a conscious investigation of , and intervention in , the past as the key to the future , proleptic or dynamic 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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