The assumptions that literary criticism and philosophy are closely linked-and that both disciplines can learn much from each other-lead David White to examine key passages in James JoyceAEs novels both as a philosopher and as literary critic. In so doing, he develops a thesis that JoyceAEs attempt to capture the mysterious process whereby perception and consciousness are translated into language entails a fundamental challenge to everyday notions of reality. JoyceAEs stylistic brilliance and virtuosity, his destruction of normal syntax and meaning, \u201cshock one into a new reality.\u201d In the bookAEs final section, White examines the subtle relation between literary language and human consciousness and traces parallels between JoyceAEs stylistic experimentation and WittgensteinAEs and HusserlAEs ideas about language.
- ISBN10 0822985578
- ISBN13 9780822985570
- Publish Date 11 March 1983
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English