The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

Author: Derek Attridge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-06-17

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 110749494X

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This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.

The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce
The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce

Author: Eric Bulson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-09-14

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1139457942

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James Joyce has a reputation for being one of modern literature's most difficult writers. This introduction gives students the necessary tools they will need to get the most out of reading him. It provides the essential biographical information and situates his life and works in broader cultural, historical, and literary contexts. Students will also find detailed examinations of the major works including Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In addition, Bulson lets students see how Joyce evolved as a writer. This introduction also provides a brief history of the critical reception of Joyce's life and works and explains what a variety of critical approaches can teach us. A guide to further reading has been included for those interested in consulting some of the more influential secondary works. This accessible and lively introduction gives students everything they will need to get started reading, understanding, and appreciating Joyce.

The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce
The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce

Author: Eric Bulson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-09-14

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780521549653

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James Joyce has a reputation for being one of modern literature's most difficult writers. This introduction gives students the necessary tools they will need to get the most out of reading him. It provides the essential biographical information and situates his life and works in broader cultural, historical, and literary contexts. Students will also find detailed examinations of the major works including Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In addition, Bulson lets students see how Joyce evolved as a writer. This introduction also provides a brief history of the critical reception of Joyce's life and works and explains what a variety of critical approaches can teach us. A guide to further reading has been included for those interested in consulting some of the more influential secondary works. This accessible and lively introduction gives students everything they will need to get started reading, understanding, and appreciating Joyce.

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.

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

Author: Morag Shiach

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-04-19

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 052185444X

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The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.

The Value of James Joyce
The Value of James Joyce

Author: Margot Norris

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-29

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1107131928

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This book explores the writings of James Joyce from his early poetry and short stories to his final avant-garde work, Finnegans Wake. It examines not only the significance of the ordinary but the function of natural and urban spaces and the moods, voice, and language that give Joyce's works their widespread appeal.

James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity
James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity

Author: Katherine Mullin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-07-10

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780521827515

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In James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity, Katherine Mullin offers a richly detailed account of Joyce's lifelong battle against censorship. Through prodigious archival research, Mullin shows Joyce responding to Edwardian ideologies of social purity by accentuating the 'contentious' or 'offensive' elements in his work. Ulysses, A Portrait and Dubliners each meticulously subvert purity discourse. This important and highly original book will change the way Joyce is read and offers crucial insights into the sexual politics of Modernism.

The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman
The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman

Author: M. Jimmie Killingsworth

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-03-08

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1139462288

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Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion of the United States. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues to attract the admiration of poets, artists, critics, political activists, and readers around the world. Those studying his work for the first time will find this an invaluable book. Alongside close readings of the major texts, chapters on Whitman's biography, the history and culture of his time, and the critical reception of his work provide a comprehensive understanding of Whitman and of how he has become such a central figure in the American literary canon.

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies

Author: Penny Gay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-04-07

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1139469770

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Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.