Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination

by Mary T. Reynolds

Book Overview

Mary Reynolds studies the rhetorical and linguistic maneuvers by which Joyce related his work to Dante's and shows how Joyce created in his own fiction a Dantean allegory of art. Dr. Reynolds argues that Joyce read Dante as a poet rather than as a Catholic; that Joyce was interested in Dante's criticism of society and, above all, in his great powers of innovation. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691064466
• ISBN13: 9780691064468
• Release Date: August 1981
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.