Joyce's Book of Memory The Mnemotechnic of Ulysses

Name: Joyce's Book of Memory The Mnemotechnic of Ulysses
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ISBN: 9780822321705

ISBN-10: 082232170X

ISBN-13: 9780822321705

Edition: 1999

Authors: John S. Rickard

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For James Joyce, perhaps the most crucial of all human faculties was memory. It represented both the central thread of identity and a looking glass into the past. It served as an avenue into other minds, an essential part of the process of literary composition and narration, and the connective tissue of cultural tradition. In Joyce's Book of Memory John S. Rickard demonstrates how Joyce's body of work - Ulysses in particular - operates as a "mnemotechnic," a technique for preserving and remembering the personal, social, and cultural pasts.Offering a detailed reading of Joyce and his methods of writing, Rickard investigates the uses of memory in Ulysses and analyses its role in the formation…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/6/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.17" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Personal Memory and the Construction of the Self



The Past as Obstruction



Memory, Destiny, and the Limits of the Self



Joyce's Mnemotechnic: Textual Memory in Ulysses



Intertextual Memory


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index