James Joyce and the art of mediation:

Beginning with an examination of Joyce's early critical writings and aesthetic speculations, Weir shows that the principles of mediation provides a common base for several well-known Joycean devices. The epiphany, for example, makes ordinary experience the medium for feeling and meaning, provid...

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Beteilige Person: Weir, David 1947- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor, Mich. Univ. of Michigan Press 1996
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Zusammenfassung:Beginning with an examination of Joyce's early critical writings and aesthetic speculations, Weir shows that the principles of mediation provides a common base for several well-known Joycean devices. The epiphany, for example, makes ordinary experience the medium for feeling and meaning, providing Joyce with a method of making high drama from everyday life. This early form of mediation serves as the model for later narrative developments, as Joyce begins to experiment with a number of devices that allow him to integrate logical, objective structures with psychological, subjective structures effects
These narrative paradigms, or mediating structures, include the gnomon, a geometrical figure whose potential to mediate contrary elements is exploited in Dubliners; chiasmus, a rhetorical figure that allows for integration of character and narrative in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; and various organic figurations based mainly on human sexuality that lead to a poetics of the body in Ulysses. These same geometric rhetorical, and organic structures are also used to illuminate the method and meaning of Finnegans Wake
Abstract:In James Joyce and the Art of Mediation, David Weir uses the concept of mediation as a way of understanding both aesthetic theory and narrative practice: Joyce's ability to interweave contrary modes of thought and presentation makes the artist a mediator from the outset to the end of his long narrative career
Umfang:235 S.
ISBN:0472106538