Joyce is widely known for breaking with the conventional rules on how a novel should be build up and what it should consist of, but what is it that makes this novel so extraordinary in the development of a modernistic culture during the turn of the century?
2006-06-25 07:48:23 · 4 answers · asked by black sheep dyed blonde 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Just because critics say it's seminal doens't mean it is. When Joyce was writing it it was merely a work in progress, when it was lying in a desk waiting on a yay or nay from a publisher it was a manuscript. I love Joyce because he writes so well about my city Dublin. Ignore anyting critical about literature, if you like it then that's all that matters.
2006-06-25 10:32:20 · answer #1 · answered by Martin K 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
1. Joyce was Irish but flatly rejected Catholicism.
2. Introspectiveness.
3. Joyce questions traditional morality.
4. Obscurantism--it hard to know exactly what Joyce means much of the time, and the literary establishment loves that.
5. The literary establishment are extreme secularists who love any writer who holds out hope of destroying the traditional religious culture of Western Civilization.
2006-06-25 16:50:31 · answer #2 · answered by TrueAim 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of assigning you essay homework is to get you to THINK.
You don't want other people thinking FOR you, do you...?
2006-06-25 16:07:45 · answer #3 · answered by St. Hell 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Write your own essay. Take responsibility for your own education. You can't cheat your way through life.
2006-06-25 15:09:52 · answer #4 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋