The Rhythm of English Prose
The Rhythm of English Prose

Author: Norton R. Tempest

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-07-17

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 110764982X

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Originally published in 1930, this book was written primarily for the use of those approaching the subject of English prose rhythm for the first time. The text is divided into four main chapters on the following topics: 'Rhythm', 'Prose-Rhythm', 'Cadence' and 'Some Applications'. A bibliography and glossary are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English literature, linguistic rhythm and the history of education.

James Joyce and the Language of History
James Joyce and the Language of History

Author: Robert Spoo

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1994-09-29

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0195358600

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"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Stephen Dedalus's famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce's creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome in 1906-07 to the completion of Ulysses in 1922, cannot be understood apart from the ferment of historical thought that dominated the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing James Joyce's historiographic art to its formative contexts, Spoo reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of history, forging a new language that both dramatizes and redefines that problem.