James Joyce's America / Brian Fox.

First edition.

9780191869822 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

English

1 online resource.

PR6019.O9

823.912

'James Joyce's America' addresses the nature of Joyce's relation to the United States. It challenges the prevalent views of Joyce as merely indifferent or hostile towards America, and argues that his works show an increasing level of engagement with American history, culture, and politics that culminates in the abundance of allusions to the US in 'Finnegans Wake', the very title of which comes from an Irish-American song and signals the importance of America to that work. The text focuses on Joyce's concept of America within the framework of an Irish history that his works obsessively return to. It concentrates on Joyce's thematic preoccupation with Ireland and its history and America's relation to Irish post-Famine history.

'James Joyce's America' addresses the nature of Joyce's relation to the United States. It challenges the prevalent views of Joyce as merely indifferent or hostile towards America, and argues that his works show an increasing level of engagement with American history, culture, and politics that culminates in the abundance of allusions to the US in 'Finnegans Wake', the very title of which comes from an Irish-American song and signals the importance of America to that work. The text focuses on Joyce's concept of America within the framework of an Irish history that his works obsessively return to. It concentrates on Joyce's thematic preoccupation with Ireland and its history and America's relation to Irish post-Famine history.

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