![]() ![]() ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Ībbottsmith, Jane. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This explains Joyce’s scathing critique in his work of all forms of saturated communities and his attempt to visualize alternative, non-essentialist communitarian forms. As Edna O’Brien explains in her biography of Joyce, he left Ireland “so he said, for fear he might succumb to the national disease which was provincialness, wind-and-piss philosophising, crookedness, vacuity and a verbal spouting that reserved sentiment for God and for the dead” (17). Joyce’s preference for exile and cosmopolitanism-both in his life and in his works-responds to his desire to safeguard artistic independence. The artist’s loneliness and apartness was, therefore, a prerequisite for creativity. ![]() He feared an artist could lose his integrity “while being involved with a community’s enterprise” (Deane 35). James Joyce believed that insular notions of Irish identity threatened the writer’s freedom. ![]()
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