Thesis
Comedy in James Joyce's Ulysses
- Abstract:
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The comic in Ulysses needs more attention. The few studies that exist disregard the problems: the adoption of assumptions which limit discussion, the inconsistent terminology, the lingering prejudice regarding comedy as inferior to tragedy. This study begins by examining the common assumption that comedy in Ulysses is either a restraint on Joyce's saeva indignatio, or an affirmation of life; and then looks at the difficulties of comic criticism.
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1987
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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602354755
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:602354755
- Deposit date:
- 2014-07-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Carey, Stephen Joseph
- Copyright date:
- 1987
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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