'Disappointed Bridges': Language, Identity and Historiography in the Works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett

This thesis investigates the ambivalent and sceptical relationship towards language and linguistic representation shared by James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. The motivations behind the subversive approaches to language enacted by the two writers are both literary and political: both question the abili...

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Main Author: Lister, Samuel John
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Culture, Literature and Society 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1937