“The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses
This essay uses evidence from the notes that Joyce made in preparation to recapitulate the historical development of English prose style in the “Oxen of the Sun” chapter of Ulysses to identify the traces of Defoe’s works that appear in the text of the Gabler edition. It investigates how Joyce used s...
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| description | This essay uses evidence from the notes that Joyce made in preparation to recapitulate the historical development of English prose style in the “Oxen of the Sun” chapter of Ulysses to identify the traces of Defoe’s works that appear in the text of the Gabler edition. It investigates how Joyce used strategies of (mis)quotation and syntactical imitation to synthesise Defoe’s individual style and mobilise his authorial imprint, both as a stage in the recapitulation of the evolution of English prose and as a means to enact revenge on the narrative heritage of English imperialism. In doing so, it offers a genetic reinterpretation of Defoe’s presence in “Oxen” by the light of “Realism and Idealism in English Literature (Daniel Defoe–William Blake)”, Joyce’s notes for a series of lectures at the Università Popolare, Trieste (1912). |
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| spelling | nottingham-451732020-05-04T17:51:16Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45173/ “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses Davison, Sarah This essay uses evidence from the notes that Joyce made in preparation to recapitulate the historical development of English prose style in the “Oxen of the Sun” chapter of Ulysses to identify the traces of Defoe’s works that appear in the text of the Gabler edition. It investigates how Joyce used strategies of (mis)quotation and syntactical imitation to synthesise Defoe’s individual style and mobilise his authorial imprint, both as a stage in the recapitulation of the evolution of English prose and as a means to enact revenge on the narrative heritage of English imperialism. In doing so, it offers a genetic reinterpretation of Defoe’s presence in “Oxen” by the light of “Realism and Idealism in English Literature (Daniel Defoe–William Blake)”, Joyce’s notes for a series of lectures at the Università Popolare, Trieste (1912). Brill Crowley, Ronan van Hulle, Dirk 2016-05-19 Book Section PeerReviewed Davison, Sarah (2016) “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses. In: New quotatoes: Joycean exogenesis in the digital age. European Joyce Studies (25). Brill, Leiden, pp. 111-140. ISBN 9789004319622 James Joyce Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Genetic Criticism Ulysses Oxen of the Sun notesheets quotations intertextuality http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/b9789004319622s009 doi:10.1163/9789004319622_009 doi:10.1163/9789004319622_009 |
| spellingShingle | James Joyce Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Genetic Criticism Ulysses Oxen of the Sun notesheets quotations intertextuality Davison, Sarah “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses |
| title | “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses |
| title_full | “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses |
| title_fullStr | “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses |
| title_full_unstemmed | “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses |
| title_short | “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses |
| title_sort | “the true-born englishman” and the irish bull: daniel defoe in the “oxen of the sun” episode of ulysses |
| topic | James Joyce Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Genetic Criticism Ulysses Oxen of the Sun notesheets quotations intertextuality |
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