Joyce

James Joyce · Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941) · 1882–1941

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Summary

Dominique Pagani mainly mentions Joyce in connection with Ulysses, and almost always by comparing him with Nerval. From 2016 to 2020 he returns to the same contrast: where Nerval stays discreet about his sources, Joyce displays the Homeric reference in the very title1 2. He takes up this comparison again in the session devoted to Angélique3. In another session, Ulysses serves him as an example of the novel conceived as an estuary that carries along every genre. Elsewhere, the mentions are brief. He recalls that Foucault counts Joyce among the activities that take the place of philosophy4. He cites him among the Irish writers when discussing worldliness in Clouscard5. Finally, in a session on secularism, he takes him as an example of more modern anxieties6. In his work, Joyce thus appears as a point of comparison rather than as an author read closely.

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Who is this?

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. His other well-known works include the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). […]

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