Parisian Literary Fields: James Joyce and Pierre Reverdy's Theory of the Image

Author: Azérad, Hugo¹

Source: The Modern Language Review, Volume 103, Number 3, 1 July 2008 , pp. 666-681(16)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract:

This article examines Joyce's Parisian works through the lens of Reverdy's aesthetic of the image, which was symptomatic of the intricate tensions between innovative ideas and the rivalries surrounding avant-garde practices, thus showing possible links between Parisian avant-garde practices and what is commonly called `high modernism' in modernism studies. This parallel analysis of Joyce and Reverdy should help reassess the role played by images in Joyce's modernist aesthetic in Ulysses, and also in Finnegans Wake, where words become `word-images'. New relations should emerge between the innovative practices of poetry and of novel writing, beyond a seemingly well-established divide.

Keywords: Joyce; Reverdy; aesthetic of the image; avant-garde; modernism; modernism studies; Ulysses; Finnegans Wake; poetry; novel

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Magdalene College, Cambridge

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