Joyce's Book of Memory: The Mnemotechnic of UlyssesDuke University Press, 06/01/1999 - 254 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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... Memory , Destiny , and the Limits of the Self 87 4 Joyce's Mnemotechnic : Textual Memory in Ulysses 118 5 Intertextual Memory 167 Conclusion 181 Appendix 199 Notes 203 Bibliography 223 Index 233 Acknowledgments T The most daunting part ...
... Memory , Destiny , and the Limits of the Self 87 4 Joyce's Mnemotechnic : Textual Memory in Ulysses 118 5 Intertextual Memory 167 Conclusion 181 Appendix 199 Notes 203 Bibliography 223 Index 233 Acknowledgments T The most daunting part ...
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... 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- sophical , and textual — provide a valuable ...
... 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- sophical , and textual — provide a valuable ...
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... memory , but even his processes of composition — his construction of a " textual memory " in Ulysses . To sum up , Ulysses enacts , in my reading , a dialogue or dialectic between , on the one hand , the instability and fragmentation of ...
... memory , but even his processes of composition — his construction of a " textual memory " in Ulysses . To sum up , Ulysses enacts , in my reading , a dialogue or dialectic between , on the one hand , the instability and fragmentation of ...
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... texts with much of their power for twentieth - century readers . Joyce's own historical position as a subject ensured that he would write Ulysses amid a number of now almost forgotten debates concern- ing the nature of memory , chance ...
... texts with much of their power for twentieth - century readers . Joyce's own historical position as a subject ensured that he would write Ulysses amid a number of now almost forgotten debates concern- ing the nature of memory , chance ...
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... memory fits in with a renewed interest in historicist approaches to studying Joyce's texts . 9 While I focus primarily on intellectual contexts for Joyce's positions on memory and subjectivity , the various positions articulated here ...
... memory fits in with a renewed interest in historicist approaches to studying Joyce's texts . 9 While I focus primarily on intellectual contexts for Joyce's positions on memory and subjectivity , the various positions articulated here ...
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2 The Past as Obstruction | 45 |
3 Memory Destiny and the Limits of the Self | 87 |
Textual Memory in Ulysses | 118 |
5 Intertextual Memory | 167 |
Conclusion | 181 |
Appendix | 199 |
Notes | 203 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Index | 233 |
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