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Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination
Contributors:
By (Author) Mary Trackett Reynolds
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Dewey:
823.912
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
398
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
680g
Description
Mary Reynolds studies the rhetorical and linguistic maneuvers by which Joyce related his work to Dante's and shows how Joyce created in his own fiction a Dantean allegory of art. Dr. Reynolds argues that Joyce read Dante as a poet rather than as a Catholic; that Joyce was interested in Dante's criticism of society and, above all, in his great power
