James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's Nightmare

by Robert Spoo

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Stephen Dedalus's famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce's creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome in 1906-07 to the completion of Ulysses in 1922, cannot be understood apart from the ferment of historical thought that dominated the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087496
• ISBN13: 9780195087499
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"