Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder

by R.B. Kershner

Book Overview

The sheer mass of allusion to popular literature in the writings of James Joyce is daunting. Using theories developed by Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin, R. B. Kershner analyzes how Joyce made use of popular literature in such early works as Stephen Hero, Dubliners, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, and Exiles. Kershner also examines Joyce's use of rhetoric, the relationship between narrator and protagonist, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807843873
• ISBN13: 9780807843871
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"