Joyce's Book of Memory: The Mnemotechnic of UlyssesDuke University Press, 1999 M01 6 - 240 pages For James Joyce, perhaps the most crucial of all human faculties was memory. It represented both the central thread of identity and a looking glass into the past. It served as an avenue into other minds, an essential part of the process of literary composition and narration, and the connective tissue of cultural tradition. In Joyce’s Book of Memory John S. Rickard demonstrates how Joyce’s body of work—Ulysses in particular—operates as a “mnemotechnic,” a technique for preserving and remembering personal, social, and cultural pasts. Offering a detailed reading of Joyce and his methods of writing, Rickard investigates the uses of memory in Ulysses and analyzes its role in the formation of personal identity. The importance of forgetting and repression, and the deadliness of nostalgia and habit in Joyce’s paralyzed Dublin are also revealed. Noting the power of spontaneous, involuntary recollection, Rickard locates Joyce’s mnemotechnic within its historical and philosophical contexts. As he examines how Joyce responded to competing intellectual paradigms, Rickard explores Ulysses’ connection to medieval, modern, and (what would become) postmodern worldviews, as well as its display of tensions between notions of subjective and universal memory. Finally, Joyce’s Book of Memory illustrates how Joyce distilled subjectivity, history, and cultural identity into a text that offers a panoramic view of the modern period. This book will interest students and scholars of Joyce, as well as others engaged in the study of modern and postmodern literature. |
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... consciousness so radically that the individual subject dissolves into a sea of human language , time , and memory ... conscious and unconscious assumptions and conflicts about mind and memory encountered by a modern Irish writer well ...
... consciousness so radically that the individual subject dissolves into a sea of human language , time , and memory ... conscious and unconscious assumptions and conflicts about mind and memory encountered by a modern Irish writer well ...
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... consciousness representations in Ulysses ) , and external organizing patterns such as the schemas , which she argues represent culture and art over nature . 7 Herr articulates the ways in which the text calls attention to what we might ...
... consciousness representations in Ulysses ) , and external organizing patterns such as the schemas , which she argues represent culture and art over nature . 7 Herr articulates the ways in which the text calls attention to what we might ...
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... consciousness beyond those normally considered accessible in modernist and postmod- ernist epistemologies . Memory is at the core of many of these repressed or obscured discourses of desire and holism in Ulysses , and it provides the ...
... consciousness beyond those normally considered accessible in modernist and postmod- ernist epistemologies . Memory is at the core of many of these repressed or obscured discourses of desire and holism in Ulysses , and it provides the ...
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... conscious agency and authorial control ) and into the area covered by contemporary investigations of intertextuality , 10 with their assumption that the agency of one text upon another operates often in an uncon- scious , polyvocal ...
... conscious agency and authorial control ) and into the area covered by contemporary investigations of intertextuality , 10 with their assumption that the agency of one text upon another operates often in an uncon- scious , polyvocal ...
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... conscious attempt to decipher and " cure " the problems of the past , and an involuntary , unconscious , or proleptic memory in which forces outside the character or subject deploy memory in order to break through the impasse of the ...
... conscious attempt to decipher and " cure " the problems of the past , and an involuntary , unconscious , or proleptic memory in which forces outside the character or subject deploy memory in order to break through the impasse of the ...
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