eBooks - Education - Literary Studies - Emer Nolan - James Joyce and Nationalism
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by Emer Nolan
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James Joyce and Nationalism Summary
| JAMES JOYCE AND NATIONALISM The writings of James Joyce are usually defined by his critics against Irish separatist nationalism, and his ambivalence towards Ireland is often remarked upon. The notion of a `metropolitan'' and a `provincial'' Joyce has consistently been put forward as the reason for this apparent contradiction in his writing. But has Joyce been misread as the spokesperson for the `metropolis'' and an advocate for modernity? Emer Nolan challenges this largely accepted reading of Joyce, arguing that it is actually a critical clich which is, in fact, untenable. Political nationalism and aesthetic modernism are, she asserts, analogous in many ways. In the process of her argument, she also discusses how modernist art has been misinterpreted by metropolitan critics and theorists, and what role Joyce plays in the debate about feminism and modernism. James Joyce and Nationalism is a timely and groundbreaking work, and an invaluable contribution to Joycean studies. |
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"James Joyce and Nationalism" revises the conventional understanding of Joyce's relationship to Irish politics. Examining the aesthics of modernism and political nationalism, Nolan argues that both formations were responses to changing conditions of modernity. She deftly provides alternative conceptions of nationalism to issue her argument. The book also offers a polemical introduction to Joyce and the vast field of Joycean studies. It represents an important, theoretically engaged intervention into debates about Joyce's politics and the politics of modernism by an Irish critic, and provides a high-minded and critical reading of the related fields of modernism, Irish culture, post-colonialism, and gender and nationalism. |
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