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James Joyce (1882±1941): Theories of Literature If Joyce's central place in high modernism is undisputed today, the relationship between a masterpiece such as Ulysses and the literary or aesthetic theories developed in the novel and employed in its very construction is more complex, even contested. Besides, James Joyce, after a number of early experiments collected in his Critical Writings, soon decided not to write any self-contained aesthetic treatise and even more decidedly refused to engage at any length in the kind of critical writing that marked the works of immediate modernist contemporaries like Woolf, Pound, Lewis or Eliot.If most readers of Joyce sense that there is something like an aesthetic theory that would be specific to his works, it is unlikely that two readers will agree as to what the term exactly covers. Rather than starting with an abstract definition of these terms, it might be more helpful to begin by surveying the available corpus. A good place to start might be Joyce's perception of his own canon in the making, as evinced by the proud assertion made to his mother (from his first Parisian `exile') that among his projects, an aesthetic theory would have to fi

Author

Jean-Michel Rabaté

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN