Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home - Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation (Hardcover, New)

Consisting of six essayistic chapters, this book centers on two seminal yet not often associated Irish texts: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916). Practicing a comparative way of reading indebted to T.S. Eliot, Atkins traces the patterns of response the protagonists of these works show in leaving home and separating themselves from family and friends. Both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the messy burdens of ordinary life, seeking a transcendent existence, which Gulliver finds in the Flying or Floating Island, Laputa, whereas Stephen in art. Atkins also shows how Swift and Joyce both stand opposed to their characters, joined in the understanding that an ordinary life and an extra-ordinary one are often inseparable. Thus, Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can appear as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Pivot
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	December 2013
Authors:	G. Atkins
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	67
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-39981-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-137-39981-3
Barcode:	9781137399816

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