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The Moral Of Ulysses, Charles Carlyle Cosby
The Moral Of Ulysses, Charles Carlyle Cosby
Master's Theses
Many critics are confused about the total meaning of James Joyce's Ulysses. David Daiches in The Novel and the Modern World states that "critics can acclaim the style, the organisation, the complexity, the insight, the ingenuity, and many other separate aspects of the work, but what are they to say of the whole?" Daiches is obviously among those critics who pass Ulysses off as art for art 's sake. On the other hand, William M. Schutte points out that critics who have a good deal to say about Ulysses as a whole are unfortunately saying the wrong things. These critics …
Esthetics Of Dedalus And Bloom: Nineteenth Century Roots, Structural Metaphors, And Resolutions, Marguerite Harkness
Esthetics Of Dedalus And Bloom: Nineteenth Century Roots, Structural Metaphors, And Resolutions, Marguerite Harkness
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
This study explores James Joyce's use of esthetics as a structuring source in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, especially as those esthetics derive from similarities and references to and analogues from the nineteenth century tradition of English poets, novelists, and essayists which includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Horatio Pater, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats. Stephen Dedalus and his esthetics, particularly as they appear in Portrait, are inheritors of that tradition. Further, the study will trace through Ulysses the evolution of the esthetic and its counter-traditions in the esthetics represented …