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Jiang identifies James Joyce's Ulysses as an early great modernist work that imitates and tries to surpass Dante while also invoking Homer's Odyssey.
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James Joyce
Jiang contrasts Joyce with Dante by saying Joyce demands that readers access Joyce's own mind of God, whereas Dante uses poetry to bring people toward the mind of God as truth of the world.
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Joyce's difficulty, in Jiang's reading, comes from musical style and dense allusion: readers must have read and experienced what Joyce did in order to understand him.
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Jiang contrasts Joyce with Dante by saying Joyce demands that readers access Joyce's own mind of God, whereas Dante uses poetry to bring people toward the mind of God as truth of the world.
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Jiang treats Joyce's Ulysses as a founding modernist work that imitates and tries to surpass Dante while turning literature toward style, music, allusion, and elite interpretation.
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"...century. All right. So arguably the first great modern artist is James Joyce, who in 1922 published Ulysses. James Joyce was Irish. He was..."
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"...can explain to you Homer and Shakespeare. But I struggle with James Joyce. And there are two reasons why. Okay. The first reason is..."
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"...in human history. And there are many who tell me, yeah, James Joyce is hard. But if you spend the time to go over..."
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"...arguably, the first great modern art movement. The first artist is James Joyce, who in 1922 published Ulysses. James Joyce was Irish. He was..."
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"...you just Google the best book ever written in human history, James Joyce is the greatest book ever written in human history. James Joyce..."
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"And there are many who tell me, yeah, James Joyce is hard. But if you just spend the time to go over what he's..."
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"...really just this very elite club of very arrogant, haughty people. James Joyce was good friends with Virginia Woolf. In fact, Virginia Woolf actually..."
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"...just this very elite club of very arrogant, haughty people. Okay. James Joyce was good friends with Virginia Woolf. In fact, Virginia Woolf actually..."
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