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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES JAMES JOYCE AN...

James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism examines anew how myth exists in Joyces fiction.
Using Joyces idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths of Catholicism  this study explores how
the rejected religion still acts as a foundational aesthetic for a new mythology of the Modern
age starting with A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and maturing within Ulysses. Like the
mythopoets before himHomer  Dante  Milton  BlakeJoyce consciously sets out to encapsulate his
vision of a splintered and rapidly changing reality into a new aesthetic which alone is capable
of successfully rendering the fullness of life in a meaningful way. Already reeling from the
humanistic implications of an impersonal Newtonian universe  the Modern world now faced an
Einsteinian one  a re-evaluation which includes Stephen's awakening from the nightmare of
history  a re-definition of deity  and Bloom's urban identity. Written with both the
experienced Joycean and the beginner in mind  this book tells how the Joycean myth is our own
conception of the human being  and our place in the universe becomes (re)defined as
definitively Modernist  yet still  through Molly Blooms final affirmation  profoundly human.

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