ISBN10: 0199642508, ISBN13: 9780199642502, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
[Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2013]

Oxford University Press, Date: 2013. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780199642502 2013. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199642508 9780199642502 [GB]

Oxford University Press 2013 Hard cover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 9780199642502.

ISBN10: 0199642508, ISBN13: 9780199642502, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2013]

ISBN10: 0199642508, ISBN13: 9780199642502, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Scholarly accounts of Joyce's early work have traditionally resorted to two historical keys to try to unlock it: a concept of the Dublin and Ireland in which he grew to adulthood as stagnant and backward, and an emphasis on 1904, the year of the supposedly crucial break in which Joyce quit Ireland for continental Europe and could begin his great modernist literary project. But modernist or no, Joyce's works are always about Ireland, and he remained vitally in touchwith Irish historical developments throughout his life. This study aims to be the first comprehensive historicisation of Joyce's writings 1898-1915 in relation to the distinct phases and shiftingcurrents of British-Irish history during the period. At the turn of the century, when a concept of `national resurgence' is much in the Irish air, in his earliest essays, Joyce meditates on art as an anti-colonial and emancipatory project that addresses questions of freedom and justice in its own distinctive way. His early essays produce a compelling declaration of a principle of autonomy at a specific historical moment in a colonial culture. However, successive historical events - the crisessurrounding the Land Act, the United Irish League and Devolution, the election of 1906, the Third Home Rule Bill crisis - call the emancipatory project ever more sharply into question. Thus `the ...
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ISBN10: 0199642508, ISBN13: 9780199642502, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2013]