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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... been instrumental in helping me complete my work . In particular , Karl Patten read the manuscript repeatedly and carefully , and Harold Schweizer col- laborated with me in my study of narrative theory . Acknowledgments.
... been instrumental in helping me complete my work . In particular , Karl Patten read the manuscript repeatedly and carefully , and Harold Schweizer col- laborated with me in my study of narrative theory . Acknowledgments.
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... theory . Mark Padilla helped me with my shaky Greek and Latin skills , Pauline and Dave Fletcher helped me with literature and evolution , and my colleagues in the En- glish Department have given me invaluable support and guidance . I ...
... theory . Mark Padilla helped me with my shaky Greek and Latin skills , Pauline and Dave Fletcher helped me with literature and evolution , and my colleagues in the En- glish Department have given me invaluable support and guidance . I ...
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... to elucidate the ways in which these conflicting philoso- phies of mind and incompatible theories of human development are put into play against each other in the text . I choose to focus most of my attention on Ulysses 2.
... to elucidate the ways in which these conflicting philoso- phies of mind and incompatible theories of human development are put into play against each other in the text . I choose to focus most of my attention on Ulysses 2.
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... theories of mind that were still taken seriously in Joyce's lifetime have been pushed into our own " cultural unconscious " by the increasingly skeptical nature of late - twentieth - century philosophy . Our dominant contemporary theo ...
... theories of mind that were still taken seriously in Joyce's lifetime have been pushed into our own " cultural unconscious " by the increasingly skeptical nature of late - twentieth - century philosophy . Our dominant contemporary theo ...
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... theory stemming from the evolutionary views of the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck , espoused to various ... theories concerning the nature of the self and the role of memory in shaping and delineating the self rather than a ...
... theory stemming from the evolutionary views of the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck , espoused to various ... theories concerning the nature of the self and the role of memory in shaping and delineating the self rather than a ...
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