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James Hurt Goldberg, Michael Emanuel 2015-09-25T20:15:46Z 2015-09-25T20:15:46Z 10000-01-01 1999 1999 "James Joyce was an innovator in modern literature, and many of his resources and approaches have been examined thoroughly. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, however, is an under-explored influence on Joyce's later fiction. As he wrote Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Joyce culled from the Einsteinian ideas that were ""in the air"" the inspiration for a cluster of radical narrative techniques. Because Einstein's theories appear to hold equally true for animate and inanimate matter, they coincide smoothly with Joyce's search for a ""soft"" modernism that favors humanism. Joyce's human-centered aesthetic can be called ""Einsteinian narrative,"" and it includes bodies in motion, cinematic style, and multiple perspectives (including mythic ones). The final result is a novelistic form in which the subject (both storyteller and reader) and the object (the story) are all in motion with respect to each other. The result of this form is a full, objective, thorough representation of modern Dublin and modern humanity. My project climaxes by arguing that pieces of Finnegans Wake consist of Joyce setting up a dichotomy. On the one side, Joyce suggests Wyndham Lewis as representative of the Fascistic, ""hard"" modernist whose vision of art draws from out-dated Newtonian absolute reference frames. Contrary to this, Joyce represents himself as a ""soft,"" Einsteinian modernist, who (though flawed) privileges an intuitive, subjective, humanist agenda." Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:15:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9944863.pdf: 11442441 bytes, checksum: bc719629dc8edc77ab691a9b286f4cea (MD5) Previous issue date: 1999 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 82783 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 222 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81502 (MiAaPQ)AAI9944863 eng Literature, Modern "Moving Bodies: James Joyce and the ""New Physics""" text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.