The Biography of the Century
Another Look at Richard Ellmann's James Joyce
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3805945 |
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| Authors | Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (0000-0002-2398-4845, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-45 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0340 |
| OpenAlex | W2064947298 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
How modern and complete is "the greatest literary biography of the century"? This re-evaluation of Richard Ellmann's James Joyce focuses on the way in which Ellmann's commitment to objective presentation of historical fact impinges on his ability to create the inner man. An examination of Ellmann's evident hostility to psychoanalytic interpretation in life-writing, and an exploration of the effect this bias has on the form and style of the biography, suggest the following hypothesis: Ellmann's objectivity may be marred by too close an identification with Joyce, so that James Joyce may be a biography suffering from a "transference" relationship between the biographer and his subject
Art · Art history · Biography · Epistemology · Hostility · Linguistics · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Biographical and Historical Analysis · Computer Science · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Medicine · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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