Reframing A Portrait of the Artist: Joyce and the Phenomenological Imagination

by Stephen Mclaren

James Joyce's attempt to develop a literary aesthetics is well known, while less attention has been paid to the philosophical pursuit of significance in his first novel. The phenomenological perspective of Edmund Husserl, contemporary to literary modernism, elucidates and unites Joyce's idiosyncratic themes, and helps us understand their philosophical import in a novel that eschews authorial point of view and discursive passages that "stupidly explain."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612295401
• ISBN13: 9781612295404
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Common Ground Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"