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Joyce's Voices

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Description

When a correspondent from Missouri wrote to Hugh Kenner and asked that he elaborate on his assertion that "Joyce began Ulysses in naturalism and ended it in parody," Kenner answered with this book. Joyce's Voices is both a helpful guide through Joyce's complexities, and a brief treatise on the concept of objectivity: the idea that the world can be perceived as a series of reports to our senses. Objectivity, Kenner claims, was a modern invention, and one that the modernists-Joyce foremost among them--found problematic. Accessible and enjoyable, Joyce's Voices is what so much criticism is not: an aid to better understanding--and enjoying more fully--the work of one of the world's greatest writers.

Product Details

PublisherDalkey Archive Press
Publish DateJanuary 01, 2007
Pages120
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781564784285
Dimensions7.8 X 5.0 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds
BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction

About the Author

Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) was one of America's great literary critics. He wrote on a range of subjects that includes Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, and geodesic domes.

Reviews

"An original and entertaining study of, chiefly, Ulysses . . . This is a most stimulating book." - Anthony Burgess

"As always, Kenner is original, provocative, stimulating,
occasionally perverse, and immensely readable . . . The book offers
important new insights into Joyce's art." -- Library Journal

"The volume is easy to handle and a delight to read. And Kenner's
leaping wit, his metaphors, his transitions from insight to insight, his
lively attention to Joyce's invention--these qualities make it
difficult, if you pick it up one evening, not to finish it before
turning off the light." -- National Review

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