Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home [electronic resource] : Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation /
Atkins, G.author.
In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new light on both novels as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new light on both novels as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings.
Satire, reading, and forms of separation and union -- The gift half understood -- The flight of man, the fall of Icarus and Phaeton -- The flying or floating island : Lemuel Gulliver and ideas disembodied -- Aesthetics as asceticism : Stephen Dedalus's quest of transcendence -- It's all about caring and not-caring at the same time : or, home is where you start from.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Fiction.
Literature—History and criticism.
Poetry.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.
Literary History.
Poetry and Poetics.