An Exordium to a Promise

Moslemi, Amir Abbas

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Abstract:

James Joyce’s fine shades of philosophy have been neglected in recent times, especially when it comes to fill either epistemological or ontological lacuna in taxonomy as to whereabouts of his canon. Epistemology and ontology are a couple of the core areas of philosophy. Since mirroring cognitive and post-cognitive questions in postmodern literature may invite a rereading of potential authors, a historiography of “theory of knowledge” and ontological nuances is reviewed in this paper not to represent literary examples, but to mind a hiatus in descriptive poetics. The idea is that Ulysses and Finnegans Wake gesture differently in their philosophical ‘dominance’. Analyzing the philosophical borders of the realm, it is sought to consult with literary critics beside canonical authors who dissected their mind in epistemology just to propound an initial disquisition about a novelist who never wanted his works to be prescribed by simple bounds due to their literary nature. This paper may be useful to those who pursue any link between literature and philosophy, specifically those who are willing to know more about postmodernist philosophical concerns of literature.

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International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (Volume 54)

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45-52

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https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.54.45

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A. A. Moslemi, "An Exordium to a Promise", International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Vol. 54, pp. 45-52, 2015

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June 2015

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Amir Abbas Moslemi

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Dominance, Epistemology, Historiography of “Theory of Knowledge”, Joyce, Ontology, Postmodernism

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