Joyce, decadence, and emancipation
Subtitle: Vivian Heller.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Political and social views; Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Decadence (Literary movement) -- Ireland; Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland; Decadence in literature; Liberty in literature; Dublin (Ireland) -- In literature
Description: Modernism has long been seen as either a symptom of decadence or a sign of emancipation. Vivian Heller argues that Joyce's writing cannot be categorized as either decadent or emancipatory because it is predicated on the dialectical intimacy of these two terms.

Heller relies on Joyce's changing use of epiphany to trace the arc of his development, focusing on the negative epiphanies of Dubliners, the relativistic epiphanies of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and the retrospective epiphanies of Ulysses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dubliners; title: Portrait of the artist as a young man; title: Interchapter; title: "Oxen of the sun"; title: "Circe"; title: "Penelope."