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Centennial odysseys: longest way round
Author(s) -
Wood Michael
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
critical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1467-8705
pISSN - 0011-1562
DOI - 10.1111/j.0011-1562.2005.00622.x
Subject(s) - centennial , literal and figurative language , metaphor , literature , philosophy , art , sociology , art history , linguistics , history , archaeology
This essay explores the questions about the writing of fiction and the use of metaphor posed by J. M. Coetzee's 2003 work Elizabeth Costello, and finds an answer to these eloquent and disturbing queries in Mr Bloom's reflections on the beach and in the cemetery, instances of Joyce's acceptance of the radical presence of the figurative at the heart of the real.