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Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home

Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation

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Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home

Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation

G. Atkins

Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century

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.

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.


Publication Date: 03 December 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
ISBN-13: 9781137399816
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 67

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