James Joyce: The Citizen And The Artist
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in the canon of Western literature are as towering — or as demanding — as James Joyce, and C. H. Peake's James Joyce: The Citizen and the Artist meets that challenge with admirable intellectual rigour. This authoritative critical study examines Joyce's major works — from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man through to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake — situating them within the complex interplay between the author's Irish identity, his self-imposed exile, and his relentless artistic ambition. Peake argues with conviction that Joyce's genius cannot be separated from his social and political consciousness, illuminating how the man shaped the myth and how the myth reshaped the art. Written in a measured yet deeply perceptive critical voice, the study presents close textual analysis alongside a broader cultural framework, making it an indispensable resource for both scholars and devoted readers of modernist literature. For anyone seeking to truly understand why Joyce remains the definitive voice of literary modernism, Peake's work raises as many thrilling questions as it resolves.
Author: C. H. Peake
Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in the canon of Western literature are as towering — or as demanding — as James Joyce, and C. H. Peake's James Joyce: The Citizen and the Artist meets that challenge with admirable intellectual rigour. This authoritative critical study examines Joyce's major works — from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man through to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake — situating them within the complex interplay between the author's Irish identity, his self-imposed exile, and his relentless artistic ambition. Peake argues with conviction that Joyce's genius cannot be separated from his social and political consciousness, illuminating how the man shaped the myth and how the myth reshaped the art. Written in a measured yet deeply perceptive critical voice, the study presents close textual analysis alongside a broader cultural framework, making it an indispensable resource for both scholars and devoted readers of modernist literature. For anyone seeking to truly understand why Joyce remains the definitive voice of literary modernism, Peake's work raises as many thrilling questions as it resolves.