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.


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.


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 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.


James Joyce's Ireland

James Joyce's Ireland

Author: David Pierce

Publisher:

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9780300050554

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Describes the social, intellectual, and physical background in which Joyce wrote, and describes how he used Dublin and Ireland in his writings


The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses

The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses

Author: Patrick Hastings

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2022-02-01

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1421443503

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From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce's masterpiece weaves together plot summaries, interpretive analyses, scholarly perspectives, and historical and biographical context to create an easy-to-read, entertaining, and thorough review of Ulysses. In The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' Patrick Hastings provides comprehensive support to readers of Joyce's magnum opus by illuminating crucial details and reveling in the mischievous genius of this unparalleled novel. Written in a voice that offers encouragement and good humor, this guidebook maintains a closeness to the original text and supports the first-time reader of Ulysses with the information needed to successfully finish and appreciate the novel. Deftly weaving together spirited plot summaries, helpful interpretive analyses, scholarly criticism, and explanations of historical and biographical context, Hastings makes Joyce's famously intimidating novel—one that challenges the conventions and limits of language—more accessible and enjoyable than ever before. He unpacks each chapter of Ulysses with episode guides, which offer pointed and readable explanations of what occurs in the text. He also deals adroitly with many of the puzzles Joyce hoped would "keep the professors busy for centuries." Full of practical resources—including maps, explanations of the old British system of money, photos of places and things mentioned in the text, annotated bibliographies, and a detailed chronology of Bloomsday (June 16, 1904—the single day on which Ulysses is set)—this is an invaluable first resource about a work of art that celebrates the strength of spirit required to endure the trials of everyday existence. The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is perfect for anyone undertaking a reading of Joyce's novel, whether as a student, a member of a reading group, or a lover of literature finally crossing this novel off the bucket list.


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.


James Joyce and Censorship

James Joyce and Censorship

Author: Paul Vanderham

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1349137782

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James Joyce and Censorship is the first book to tell the fascinating story of the trials of Ulysses. Based on extensive archival research, it is also the first study of the trials to analyze their influence on the reception and composition of Ulysses in the context of Joyce's lifelong struggle with the censors, to evaluate their significance as an important turning point in the history of censorship, and to emphasize their relevance to contemporary debates regarding freedom of literary expression.


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.