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Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home G. Atkins

Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home By G. Atkins

Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home by G. Atkins

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In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new light on both novels as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings.

Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home Summary

Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home: Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation by G. Atkins

In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new light on both novels as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings.

Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home Reviews

In an engaging, accessible manner, G. Douglas Atkins re-examines Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in light of Atkins's understanding of the Christian concept of the Incarnation, an understanding deeply influenced by his study of T.S. Eliot. Atkins' well-written study will likely appeal to a wide audience including Swift, Joyce, and Eliot scholars, as well as academic readers more generally. - Bruce Bashford, Associate Professor of English Emeritus, Stony Brook University, USA

About G. Atkins

G. Douglas Atkins is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kansas, USA, where he taught for 44 years. The winner of several awards for outstanding teaching, he is the author of eighteen books and co-editor of three others, including Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing and six on T.S. Eliot. He is now at work on three other books.

Table of Contents

1. Satire, Reading, and Forms of Separation and Union 2. The Gift Half Understood 3. The Flight of Man, the Fall of Icarus and Phaeton 4. The Flying or Floating Island: Lemuel Gulliver and Ideas Disembodied 5. Aesthetics as Asceticism: Stephen Dedalus's Quest of Transcendence 6. It's All About Caring and Not-Caring at the Same Time: Or, Home Is Where You Start From

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GOR013294961
9781137399816
1137399813
Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home: Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation by G. Atkins
G. Atkins
Used - Like New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
20131203
67
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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