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Article: Wolfgang Wicht. Utopianism in James Joyce's Ulysses.(Book Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2003
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Anglistische Forschungen, #278. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2000.
STUDIES OF UTOPIAN LITERATURE rarely emphasize works and writers of major literary standing, however important scholars see them within generic boundaries. Wolfgang Wicht, however, has centered this study on the Mount Everest of 20th century fiction and its author, whose position vis-a-vis utopian writing and longing is problematic. Having never written an overtly utopian or dystopian story, James Joyce was one of the High Priests of Literary Modernism. What he labelled his four "novels"--Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake--essentially take humankind as they find ...