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Joyce A Guide For The Perplexed

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Author : Peter Mahon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2009-09-02

Joyce A Guide For The Perplexed written by Peter Mahon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-02 with Literary Criticism categories.

"In clear and simple prose, Mahon explains how to connect this little black box to the Joycean engine. Just pull some gears, it falls into place and works." -Jean-Michel Rabaté, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania James Joyce's work has been regarded as some of the most obscure, challenging, and difficult writing ever committed to paper; it is also shamelessly funny and endlessly entertaining. Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed celebrates the daring, humor and playfulness of Joyce's complex work while engaging with and elucidating the most demanding aspects of his writing. The book explores in detail the motifs and radical innovations of style and technique that characterize his major works-Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. By highlighting how Joyce's texts have been read by recent innovations in literary and cultural theory, Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed offers the reader a Joyce that is contemporary, fresh, and relevant.

Modernist Literature A Guide For The Perplexed

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Author : Peter Childs
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-06-02

Modernist Literature A Guide For The Perplexed written by Peter Childs and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-02 with Literary Criticism categories.

A complete introduction to Modernist writers, ideas and movements, this book considers the precursors as well as the legacy of Modernist Literature in a clear, accessible manner.

Useless Joyce

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Author : Tim Conley
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01

Useless Joyce written by Tim Conley and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Art categories.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Textual Functions -- 1 Guidance Systems -- 2 Misquoting Joyce -- 3 Limited Editions, Edited Limitations -- 4 Translation, Annotation, Hesitation -- Part Two: Cultural Appropriations -- 5 Make a Stump Speech Out of It -- 6 Win a Dream Date with James Joyce -- 7 The Stephen Dedalus Diet -- Conclusion: Means Without End -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

James Joyce

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Author : Colin MacCabe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021

James Joyce written by Colin MacCabe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

James Joyce was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This book explores his novels and short stories, and analyses the literary traditions and social factors influencing his distinctive complex style. Interweaving Joyce's life and history with his books, it also shows how Joyce celebrated his own experiences in Dublin.

James Joyce

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Author : Len Platt
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-10-06

James Joyce written by Len Platt and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with Literary Criticism categories.

Introduces the work of James Joyce, the literary, historical and political contexts in which he wrote and his critical reception up to the present day.

Joyce Bakhtin And The Literary Tradition

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Author : M. Keith Booker
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1995

Joyce Bakhtin And The Literary Tradition written by M. Keith Booker and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.

Illuminates James Joyce's relationship to his literary predecessors in new and important ways

Joyce A Guide For The Perplexed

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Author : Peter Mahon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2009-11-02

Joyce A Guide For The Perplexed written by Peter Mahon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-02 with Literary Criticism categories.

Focusing on the most commonly studied texts, it guides the reader through Joyce's stylistic and thematic complexity and through differing theoretical interpretations of his work.

Our Joyce

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Author : Joseph Kelly
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-06-25

Our Joyce written by Joseph Kelly and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-25 with Literary Criticism categories.

James Joyce began his literary career as an Irishman writing to protest the deplorable conditions of his native country. Today, he is an icon in a field known as "Joyce studies." Our Joyce explores this amazing transformation of a literary reputation, offering a frank look into how and for whose benefit literary reputations are constructed. Joseph Kelly looks at five defining moments in Joyce's reputation. Before 1914, when Joyce was most in control of his own reputation, he considered himself an Irish writer speaking to the Dublin middle classes. When T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound began promoting Joyce in 1914, however, they initiated a cult of genius that transformed Joyce into a prototype of the "egoist," a writer talking only to other writers. This view served the purposes of Morris Ernst in the 1930s, when he defended Ulysses against obscenity charges by arguing that geniuses were incapable of obscenity and that they wrote only for elite readers. That view of Joyce solidified in Richard Ellmann's award-winning 1950s biography, which portrayed Joyce as a self-centered genius who cared little for his readers and less for the world at war around him. The biography, in turn, led to Joyce's canonization by the academy, where a "Joyce industry" now flourishes within English departments.

Joyce And The Jews

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Author : Ira Bruce Hadel
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1989-06-18

Joyce And The Jews written by Ira Bruce Hadel and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-06-18 with Literary Criticism categories.

Nadel examines Joyce's identification with the dislocated Jew after his exodus from Ireland and analyzes the influence which Rabbinical hermeneutics and Judaic textuality had on his language. Biographical and historical information is used as well as Joyce's texts and critical theory.

Joyce S Messianism

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Author : Gian Balsamo
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2004

Joyce S Messianism written by Gian Balsamo and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.

In his study of negative existence and how it affects James Joyce's principal characters, Gian Balsamo joins the ongoing debate about the Irish writer's relationship to Dante and considers the centrality of messianism to that relationship. Finding in Dante a negative poetics that becomes a model for Joyce, Balsamo suggests that the inception and cessation of life - two occurrences that conventionally are deemed impossible to experience personally and directly - typically frame the existential experiences of Joyce's main characters. Balsamo perceives Stephen, Leopold, and Shem as messianic figures because they rebel against this convention, clustering their lives around the very events of inception and burial. Balsamo traces the engagement of each of the three characters in a negative existence immune from the rules and limitations of ordinary experience. Each struggles to express rather than exorcise the fecundity of his own mortality; each reinvents his biography as involving the pivotal transaction of one death - be it a mother's, a son's, or even that of his own body - in return for catharsis. Drawing on the writings of Giambattista Vico, Saint Augustine, Emile Durkheim, and Noam Chomsky, Balsamo challenges the current debate by identifying the messianic thread that ties together the biographies of Joyce's three characters. Faced with the fissure between history and poetic vocation, Stephen embraces the sacrificial poetry of silence. Faced with the domestic squalor provoked by the loss of his son, Leopold renews at every meal the cathartic exchange of food and semen. Faced with a destiny of death and decomposition, Shem reenacts the tradition of the medieval cycle drama, stretching his own body like a parchment on a cross and then rubricating it like a sacred manuscript.