The Joyce Paradox: Form and Freedom in His FictionThis book makes sense of the present state of Joyce criticism by polarising various attitudes which have been taken to Joyce's work. This polarisation is then presented as the basis for a new view which takes account of divergent tendencies within Joyce's fiction itself. [...] -From book jacket. |
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... meaning : Kierkegaard's Abraham ( in Fear and Trembling ) is ' ethically ' immoral for offering to sacrifice Isaac , but equally ( possibly ) ' religious ' in another sphere . To assert that such contradictions make nonsense of moral ...
... meaning : Kierkegaard's Abraham ( in Fear and Trembling ) is ' ethically ' immoral for offering to sacrifice Isaac , but equally ( possibly ) ' religious ' in another sphere . To assert that such contradictions make nonsense of moral ...
Page 35
... meaning of any given situation which later comes , as he thinks , to pass . This is equivalent to eliminating time from the novel and possibility from the life of the character . By positing Stephen's ' obvious ambition ' , Kenner finds ...
... meaning of any given situation which later comes , as he thinks , to pass . This is equivalent to eliminating time from the novel and possibility from the life of the character . By positing Stephen's ' obvious ambition ' , Kenner finds ...
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... meaning of the action and a possibility has been planted . * By exclusive is meant that any one but not the others could be , indeed must have been the true explanation ; or , that the terms we use to describe such actions are too ...
... meaning of the action and a possibility has been planted . * By exclusive is meant that any one but not the others could be , indeed must have been the true explanation ; or , that the terms we use to describe such actions are too ...
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