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Ulysses and the poetics of cognition

By James , Hogan , Patrick Colm; Joyce

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
0415704251, 978-0-415-70425-0, 9781134491773, 1134491778, 978-0-203-76216-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
896 kB (917270 bytes)
Series
Routledge studies in rhetoric and stylistics 6
Pages
254\267
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Given Ulysses’ perhaps unparalleled attention to the operations of the human mind, it is unsurprising that critics have explored the work’s psychology. Nonetheless, there has been very little research that draws on recent cognitive science to examine thought and emotion in this novel. Hogan sets out to expand our understanding of Ulysses, as well as our theoretical comprehension of narrative―and even our views of human cognition. He revises the main narratological accounts of the novel, clarifying the complex nature of narration and style. He extends his cognitive study to encompass the anti-colonial and gender concerns that are so obviously important to Joyce’s work. Finally, through a combination of broad overviews and detailed textual analyses, Hogan seeks to make this notoriously difficult book more accessible to non-specialists.

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