Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: Hope and Form in Joyce
Chapter One: Without Paralysis: Hope, Hunger, and Spiritual Liberation in Dubliners
Chapter Two: The Future of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Künstlerroman
and Hope
Chapter Three: A Humid Nightblue Dot: The Spatialization of Hope in Ulysses
Chapter Four: Daydreams of History and Reincarnation in Finnegans Wake
Bibliography

About the author

David P. Rando is a Professor in the Department of English at Trinity University, USA.

Summary

Hope and future are not the terms with which James Joyce has usually been read, but this book paints a picture of Joyce’s fiction in which hope and future assume the primary colours.
Rando explores how Joyce’s texts, as early as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, delineate a complex hope that is oriented toward the future with restlessness, dissatisfaction, and invention. He examines how Joyce envisions alternatives to the prevailing conventions of hope throughout his works and, in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, develops formal techniques of spatializing hope to contemplate it from all sides.
Casting fresh light on the ways in which hope animates key aspects of Joyce’s approach to literary content and form, Rando moves beyond the limitations of negative critique and literary historicism to present a Joyce who thinks agilely about the future, politics, and possibility.

Foreword

James Joyce: Hope, Form, and Future argues that hope is an overlooked yet central term for
understanding Joyce.

Product details

• Authors: Rando David P. Rando, David P Rando, David P. Rando, RANDO DAVID P, Rando David P.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781350236523
• ISBN: 978-1-350-23652-3
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form