{"product_id":"joyce-and-reality-the-empirical-strikes-back-9780815630197","title":"Joyce and Reality: The Empirical Strikes Back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Joyce was a realist, but his reality was not ours,\" writes John Gordon in his new book. Here, he maintains that the shifting styles and techniques of Joyce's works is a function of two interacting realities the external reality of a particular time and place and the internal reality of a character's mental state. In making this case Gordon offers up a number of new readings: how Stephen Dedalus conceives and composes his villanelle; why the \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e story about Little Chandler is titled \"A Little Cloud\"; why Gerty MacDowell suddenly appears and disappears; what is happening when Leopold Bloom stares for two minutes on end at a beer bottle's label; why the triangle etched at the center of \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e doubles itself and grows a pair of circles; why the next to last chapter of Ulysses has, by far, the book's highest incidence of the letter C; and who is the man in the macintosh. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGordon, whose authoritative \u003ci\u003e\"Finnegans Wake\" A Plot Summary\u003c\/i\u003e received critical acclaim and is considered one of the standard references, revisesand challengesthe received version of that reality. For instance, Joyce features ghost visitations, telepathy, and other paranormal phenomena not as \"flights into fantasy\" but because he believed in the real possibility of such occurrences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Gordon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.54h x 6.48w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815630197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2004 pg. 483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of english at Connecticut College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eJames Joyce's Metamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003e\"Finnegans Wake\" A Plot Summary; Physiology and the Literary Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e; and many articles on modern literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40183730274419,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_618aab9a-fcda-486e-88dd-78361e7978f9.jpg?v=1655559238","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/joyce-and-reality-the-empirical-strikes-back-9780815630197","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}