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