Shelly Harder
Post-Award Member
Worcester College
Thesis Title: Joyce's Blake: Troubling Idealism
Supervisor: Jeri Johnson & Seamus Perry
Doctoral Research: My research looks at Blake's contested status and the transmission of his work in the early twentieth century, and from here I trace Blake’s changing role within Joyce’s portraits of artistic ambition and shifting interactions with his own compositional practice. This project delineates increasingly ambivalent citations, attentive to predicaments within Blake’s ambition of a liberatory aesthetic, that accompany a shift from Joyce’s early optimism about the efficacy of his art to a commitment to difficulty and obscurity that defy communicative norms.
Research Interests: philosophy and literature; creative process; genetic scholarship
