Joyce/Lowry
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Joyce/Lowry

Critical Perspectives

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Joyce/Lowry

Critical Perspectives

About this book

While James Joyce was a central figure of high modernism, Malcom Lowry spoke for the next generation of modernist writers and, despite his denials, was almost certainly influenced by Joyce. Wherever the truth lies, there are correspondences and differences to be explored between Joyce and Lowry that are far more interesting than the question of direct influence. Despite numerous differences, their works have much in common: verbal richness, experimentation with narrative structure and perspective, a fascination with cultural and historical forces as well as with the process of artistic creation, and the inclusion of artist figures who are in varying degrees ironic self-portrayals.

The contributors to Joyce/Lowry examine the relationship of these two expatriates writers, both to each other and to broader issues in the study of literary modernism and its aftermath. This collection embraces a variety of approaches. The volume begins with a consideration of Joyce and Lowry as practitioners of Expressionist art and concludes with an essay on John Huston's cinematic interpretation of works by both writers. In between are explorations of nationalism, anti-Semitism, syphilis, mental illness, and authorial design.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. A Note on References
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Midsummer Madness and the Day of the Dead: Joyce, Lowry, and Expressionism
  10. 2 Clown Meets Cops: Comedy and Paranoia in Under the Volcano and Ulysses
  11. 3 "Well, of course, if we knew all the things": Coincidence and Design in Ulysses and Under the Volcano
  12. 4 Ulysses and Under the Volcano: The Difficulty of Loving
  13. 5 Nationalism at the Bar: Anti-Semitism in Ulysses and Under theVolcano
  14. 6 The Construction of Femininity in Ulysses and Under the Volcano: A Bakhtinian Analysis of the Late Draft Versions
  15. 7 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ultramarine: Two Exercises in Identification
  16. 8 Syphilisation and Its Discontents: Somatic Indications of Psychological Ills in Joyce and Lowry
  17. 9 The World as Book, the Book as Machine: Art and Life in Joyce and Lowry
  18. 10 Literary Modernism and Cinema: Two Approaches
  19. 11 The Filmmaker as Critic: Huston's Under the Volcano and The Dead
  20. Contributors
  21. Index