Though he published just a handful of major works in his lifetime, James Joyce (1882-1941) continues to fascinate readers around the world and remains one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. The complexity of Joyce's style has attracted--and occasionally puzzled--generations of readers who have succumbed to the richness of his literary world. This literary companion guides readers through his four major works--Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake--with chapter-by-chapter discussions and critical inquiry. An A to Z format covers the works, people, history and context that influenced his writing. Appendices summarize notable Joycean literary criticism and biography, and also discuss significant films based on his work.
[n.d.] Ellmann, Richard, Ulysses on the Liffey, Faber, 1972; Oxford University Press, NY, 1972 Fargnoli, A. N., and Michael P. Gillespie, James Joyce A to Z, Oxford University Press, 1995 Ferris, Kathleen, James Joyce and the Burden of ...
'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist' Sunday Telegraph 'A delight from start to finish . . . achieves the near impossibility of giving a thoroughly fresh view of Joyce' Sunday Times 'Accessible and ...
The Most Dangerous Book tells the remarkable story surrounding Ulysses, from the first stirrings of Joyce’s inspiration in 1904 to the book’s landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933.
011 Sunday nights there would often be a reunion in Mrs Mooney's front drawing-room. The music-hall artistes would oblige; and Sheridan played waltzes and polkas and vamped accompaniments. Polly Mooney, the Madam's daughter, ...
James Joyce, a Critical Introduction
Winner of Spain's National Comic Prize and published to acclaim in Ireland, here is an extraordinary graphic biography of James Joyce that offers a fresh take on his tumultuous life.
A collection of new essays covering Joyce's life, times and cultural contexts.
Paul S. Boyer, Purity in Print: The Vice-Society Movement and Book Censorship in America (New York: Scribner's, 1968), p. 253. 'A Thoroughly Dangerous Law,' Quill & Quire (Aug.-Sept. 1959), p. 12. Ira Glasser, Executive Director, ...
In the ' Lestrygonians ' episode in Homer there was a seduction motif ( the cannibal king's daughter ) . Joyce's way of alluding to this was to show Bloom being momentarily aroused by women's underwear in a shop window .
Fifteen stories evoke the character, atmosphere, and people of Dublin at the turn of the century.