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Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination
By (Author) Mary Trackett Reynolds
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
823.912
Hardback
398
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
879g
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