Ethical JoyceCambridge University Press, 2002 M10 17 - 199 pages Marian Eide argues that the central concern of James Joyce's writing was the creation of a literary ethics. Eide examines Joyce's ethical preoccupations throughout his work, particularly the tension between his commitment as an artist and his social obligations as a father and citizen during a tumultuous period of European history. This is the first study devoted to Joyce's ethical philosophy as it emerges in his writing. |
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References to this book
The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett Lee Oser Limited preview - 2007 |