The Joycean Labyrinth: Repetition, Time, and Tradition in Ulysses

by Udaya Kumar

This book examines the relations between the textual organization of Ulysses and the notions of time, language and poetics implicit in the novel. Making use of recent developments in philosophy and literary theory, it argues that Ulysses is a complex transitional text involving various degrees of mediation between opposing impulses such as naturalism and schematism, unification and detotalization. Examining Joyce's use of repetition, the use of a differentiated and heterogeneous temporal experience, and Joyce's early aesthetic theories, this book clarifies the notion of tradition implied in Ulysses in relation to other strands of modernism and post modernism.

196 pages, Hardcover

First published November 28, 1991

Reviews

[Nick Black]

Gift from the very kind SO, 2008-12-23. I'd not known of this previously; it looks to be a scholarly work indeed, the outgrowth of a dissertation (much like that old standby heh, The Role of Thunder in Finnegan's Wake). Hurrah for masturbatory Joyce material! Look at me mom, I'm reading literary criticism!