Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350236523)

Hope and future are not the terms with which James Joyce has usually been read, but this book paints a picture of Joyce's fiction in which hope and future assume the primary colours.
Rando explores how Joyce's texts, as early as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, delineate a complex hope that is oriented toward the future with restlessness, dissatisfaction, and invention. He examines how Joyce envisions alternatives to the prevailing conventions of hope throughout his works and, in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, develops formal techniques of spatializing hope to contemplate it from all sides.
Casting fresh light on the ways in which hope animates key aspects of Joyce's approach to literary content and form, Rando moves beyond the limitations of negative critique and literary historicism to present a Joyce who thinks agilely about the future, politics, and possibility.

Author: David P. Rando
ISBN-10: 1350236527
ISBN-13: 9781350236523
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2021
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d