James Joyce in Context

James Joyce in Context

Author: John McCourt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-02-12

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 0521886627

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This collection charts the vital contextual backgrounds to James Joyce's life and writing. The essays collectively show how Joyce was rooted in his times, how he is both a product and a critic of his multiple contexts, and how important he remains to the world of literature, criticism and culture.


Joyce and the Invention of Irish History

Joyce and the Invention of Irish History

Author: Thomas C. Hofheinz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-05-25

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 9780521471145

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This book examines Joyce's use of historical sources to illuminate prevalent problems central to modern Irish identity.


Joyce's Book of Memory

Joyce's Book of Memory

Author: John S. Rickard

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1999-01-06

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780822321705

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DIVDiscusses Ulysses arguing that through the operation of memory, it mimics the working of the human mind and achieves its status as one of the most intellectual achievements of the 20th century./div


James Joyce and the Language of History

James Joyce and the Language of History

Author: Robert Spoo

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1994-09-29

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0195358600

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"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Stephen Dedalus's famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce's creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome in 1906-07 to the completion of Ulysses in 1922, cannot be understood apart from the ferment of historical thought that dominated the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing James Joyce's historiographic art to its formative contexts, Spoo reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of history, forging a new language that both dramatizes and redefines that problem.


James Joyce and the Matter of Paris

James Joyce and the Matter of Paris

Author: Catherine Flynn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-09-12

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 110848557X

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James Joyce must be understood as drawing on French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary innovations to grapple with the challenges of Paris.


Derrida and Joyce

Derrida and Joyce

Author: Andrew J. Mitchell

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 143844639X

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All of Derrida’s texts on Joyce together under one cover in fresh, new translations, along with key essays covering the range of Derrida’s engagement with Joyce’s works. Bringing together all of Jacques Derrida’s writings on James Joyce, this volume includes the first complete translation of his book Ulysses Gramophone: Two Words for Joyce as well as the first translation of the essay “The Night Watch.” In Ulysses Gramophone, Derrida provides some of his most thorough reflections on affirmation and the “yes,” the signature, and the role of technological mediation in all of these areas. In “The Night Watch,” Derrida pursues his ruminations on writing in an explicitly feminist direction, offering profound observations on the connection between writing and matricide. Accompanying these texts are nine essays by leading scholars from across the humanities addressing Derrida’s treatments of Joyce throughout his work, and two remembrances of lectures devoted to Joyce that Derrida gave in 1982 and 1984. The volume concludes with photographs of Derrida from these two events.


Joyce in Context

Joyce in Context

Author: Pa.) James Joyce Conference (1989 Philadelphia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-06-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0521413583

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This challenging collections of essays by an international team of scholars aims to put the work of James Joyce in context by offering a range of historical, theoretical, literary and textual perspectives on his writing.


Dubliners

Dubliners

Author: James Joyce

Publisher: Standard Ebooks

Published: 2014-05-25T00:00:00Z

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Dubliners is a collection of picturesque short stories that paint a portrait of life in middle-class Dublin in the early 20th century. Joyce, a Dublin native, was careful to use actual locations and settings in the city, as well as language and slang in use at the time, to make the stories directly relatable to those who lived there. The collection had a rocky publication history, with the stories being initially rejected over eighteen times before being provisionally accepted by a publisher—then later rejected again, multiple times. It took Joyce nine years to finally see his stories in print, but not before seeing a printer burn all but one copy of the proofs. Today Dubliners survives as a rich example of not just literary excellence, but of what everyday life was like for average Dubliners in their day. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.


Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature

Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature

Author: R. B. Kershner

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014-02-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1469616211

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The sheer mass of allusion to popular literature in the writings of James Joyce is daunting. Using theories developed by Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin, R. B. Kershner analyzes how Joyce made use of popular literature in such early works as Stephen Hero, Dubliners, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, and Exiles. Kershner also examines Joyce's use of rhetoric, the relationship between narrator and protagonist, and the interplay of voices, whether personal, literary, or subliterary, in Joyce's writing. In pointing out the prolific allusions in Joyce to newspapers, children's books, popular novels, and even pornography, Kershner shows how each of these contributes to the structures of consciousness of Joyce's various characters, all of whom write and rewrite themselves in terms of the texts they read in their youth. He also investigates the intertextual role of many popular books to which Joyce alludes in his writings and letters, or which he owned -- some well known, others now obscure. Kershner presents Joyce as a writer with a high degrees of social consciousness, whose writings highlight the conflicting ideologies of the Irish bourgeoisie. In exploring the social dimension of Joyce's writing, he calls upon such important contemporary thinkers as Jameston, Althusser, Barthes, and Lacan in addition to Bakhtin. Joyce's literary response to his historical situation was not polemical, Kershner argues, but, in Bakhtin's terms, dialogical: his writings represent an unremitting dialogue with the discordant but powerful voices of his day, many inaudible to us now. Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature places Joyce within the social and intellectual context of his time. Through stylistic, social, and ideological analysis, Kersner gives us a fuller grasp of the the complexity of Joyce's earlier writings.