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Joyce, Bakhtin and the Literary Tradition - Toward a Comparative Cultural Poetics (Paperback)
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Joyce, Bakhtin and the Literary Tradition - Toward a Comparative Cultural Poetics (Paperback)
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Literary studies of James Joyce, perhaps more so than those of any
other author, have been enriched by important developments in
literary theory in the last twenty-five years. Noting a curious gap
in this scholarship, M. Keith Booker brings the work of Mikhail
Bakhtin, unquestionably one of the most important literary
theorists of this century, to bear on Joyce's dialogues not only
with Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare, his three most obvious
predecessors, but with Rabelais, Goethe, and Dostoevsky, three
literary figures important in Bakhtin's theoretical work. Together,
the comparative readings in these six chapters suggest a Joyce
whose texts are very much in touch with the everyday lives of
ordinary people despite Joyce's extensive engagement with the
literary tradition; a Joyce whose work differs radically from
conventional notions of modernist literature as culturally elitist,
historically detached, and more interested in individual psychology
than in social reality.
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