James Joyce and German theory
Subtitle: the Romantic school and all that
By: Barbara Laman.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Aesthetics.; Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Technique.; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Criticism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.; German literature -- Appreciation -- Ireland.; English fiction -- German influences.; Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.; Aesthetics, German -- 19th century.; Romanticism -- Germany.
Description: "James Joyce's aesthetic theories, as explicated by Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and in the "Scylla and Charybdis" chapter of Ulysses, have generally been assumed to be grounded in Aristotle and Aquinas. Indeed, Stephen mentions those thinkers especially in Portrait, at the same time as he rejects Romantic notions. This book investigates the extent to which Joyce's theories as well as his practice, beginning with his critical writings and Stephen Hero, are indebted to early German Romanticism.

The allusions, affinities, and analogies, as well as differential relationships between the Joycean oeuvre and texts of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel, and Novalis are often palpable, sometimes tentative, but clearly present in most of his works, including Finnegans Wake."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-167) and index.