Joyce's Voices
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
What does it truly mean to *hear* James Joyce? Hugh Kenner's Joyce's Voices presents a penetrating critical study of the narrative techniques and stylistic innovations that make Joyce one of the most revolutionary writers of the twentieth century, arguing that the key to unlocking his work lies not in symbols or biography, but in the radical plurality of voices that animate his prose. Kenner chronicles how Joyce dismantled the conventions of the omniscient narrator, replacing singular authorial authority with a shifting, polyphonic stream of consciousness that places the reader inside the minds — and idioms — of his characters. A titan of modernist criticism, Kenner brings to this slim but formidable volume the same forensic precision that distinguished his landmark study The Pound Era, illustrating with close textual analysis how Joyce's deployment of free indirect discourse transformed the possibilities of the novel form. The result is a work of scholarship that is at once rigorous and revelatory, casting familiar passages from Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses in an entirely new light. For anyone who has ever felt simultaneously enchanted and bewildered by Joyce, Kenner's analysis offers not just answers — but an entirely new set of questions to carry into the text.
Author: Hugh Kenner
Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
What does it truly mean to *hear* James Joyce? Hugh Kenner's Joyce's Voices presents a penetrating critical study of the narrative techniques and stylistic innovations that make Joyce one of the most revolutionary writers of the twentieth century, arguing that the key to unlocking his work lies not in symbols or biography, but in the radical plurality of voices that animate his prose. Kenner chronicles how Joyce dismantled the conventions of the omniscient narrator, replacing singular authorial authority with a shifting, polyphonic stream of consciousness that places the reader inside the minds — and idioms — of his characters. A titan of modernist criticism, Kenner brings to this slim but formidable volume the same forensic precision that distinguished his landmark study The Pound Era, illustrating with close textual analysis how Joyce's deployment of free indirect discourse transformed the possibilities of the novel form. The result is a work of scholarship that is at once rigorous and revelatory, casting familiar passages from Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses in an entirely new light. For anyone who has ever felt simultaneously enchanted and bewildered by Joyce, Kenner's analysis offers not just answers — but an entirely new set of questions to carry into the text.