Reflections On James Joyce

Author : Stuart Gilbert,James Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029579219

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Reflections on James Joyce by Stuart Gilbert,James Joyce Pdf

"Stuart Gilbert's friendship with James Joyce began in Paris in 1927 after Gilbert read several pages from a forthcoming French translation of Ulysses in the window of Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company book shop and went in to tell Beach that the translation was poorly done. She reported the encounter to Joyce, who subsequently sought out Gilbert. Their meeting began a literary collaboration and friendship that lasted until Joyce's death in 1941." "This journal is a chronicle of that remarkable and productive friendship. Stuart Gilbert records many amusing anecdotes and provocative opinions regarding Joyce's social life, his relationship with his wife, Nora, and his compositional techniques for Finnegans Wake. Also included in the book are some of Joyce's previously unpublished letters to Gilbert (also reproduced in photographs), numerous unpublished photographs, and a typically dyspeptic 1941 essay on Joyce, Paul Leon, and Herbert Gorman by Gilbert. The volume is fully annotated and contains an introduction by noted Joyce scholar Thomas F. Staley." "These materials from the Stuart Gilbert Archive of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin offer new perspectives on literary Paris of the 1920s and 1930s. They will be important for everyone interested in the modernist period."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000039052646

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James Joyce--reflections of Ireland by James Joyce Pdf

A re-creation of the Ireland, especially the Dublin, of James Joyce. Vivid photos accompany a succession of key extracts from the writer's short stories, novels, and poems--passages that evoke the landscape that Joyce, who left Dublin as a young man, could not forget. 50 color photos. 53 duotones.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0316912670

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James Joyce by James Joyce Pdf

Author : McCabe,Garsmeur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0316904945

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James Joyce by McCabe,Garsmeur Pdf

Author : Declan Kiberd
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571258321

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Ulysses and Us by Declan Kiberd Pdf

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary criticism, Ulysses and Us offers revolutionary insights to the scholar and the first-time reader alike. Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman who is the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, teaches the young Stephen Dedalus (modelled on Joyce himself) how he can grow and mature as an artist and an adult human being. Bloom has learned to live with contradictions, with anxiety and sexual jealousy, and with the rudeness and racism of the people he encounters in the city streets, and in his apparently banal way sees deeper than any of them. He embodies an intensely ordinary kind of wisdom, Kiberd argues, and in this way offers us a model for living well, in the tradition of the literature upon which Joyce drew in writing Ulysses, such as Homer, Dante and the Bible. 'Declan Kiberd's brilliantly informed and highly entertaining advocacy liberates Joyce's greatest book from the dungeon of unreadable masterpieces.' Joseph O'Connor

Author : McCabe,Garsmeur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0316432091

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James Joyce by McCabe,Garsmeur Pdf

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547806448

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ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series) by James Joyce Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus). Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". At first glance much of the book may appear unstructured and chaotic; Joyce once said that he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant", which would earn the novel "immortality". James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.

Author : A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie
Publisher : Literary A-Z's
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195110296

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James Joyce A to Z by A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie Pdf

(series copy)These encyclopedic companions are browsable, invaluable individual guides to authors and their works. Useful for students, but written with the general reader in mind, they are clear, concise, accessible, and supply the basic cultural, historical, biographical and critical information so crucial toan appreciation and enjoyment of the primary works. Each is arranged in an A-Z fashion and presents and explains the terms, people, places, and concepts encountered in the literary worlds of James Joyce, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf.As a keen explorer of the mundane material of everyday life, James Joyce ranks high in the canon of modernist writers. He is arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth-century, and may be the most read, studied, and taught of all modern writers. The James Joyce A-Z is the ideal companionto Joyce's life and work. Over 800 concise entries relating to all aspects of Joyce are gathered here in one easy-to-use volume of impressive scope.

Author : Len Platt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000341362

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James Joyce and Education by Len Platt Pdf

James Joyce and Education is the first full-length study of education across the Joyce oeuvre. A new account of how the politics and aesthetics of the Joyce text is informed by historical contexts, it is the latest contribution to the growing contemporary debate about education, late modernism and literary innovation. This highly original account reads Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake in new and challenging ways. It produces the Joyce text as a complex and comic devotion to the representation of schooled education — an exemplification of the elitism that state schooling was historically designed to reproduce and a devastating undoing of the epistemologies it was designed to sustain. Chapters explore a range of themes, including Joyce and radical education, the impact of Nietzsche’s writing on Joyce and women and education. The book will appeal to researchers, scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of literature in education, pedagogy, Joyce scholarship and modernism.

Author : Luca Crispi,Alexis Léon,Anna Maria Léon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350133853

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James Joyce and Paul L. Léon by Luca Crispi,Alexis Léon,Anna Maria Léon Pdf

James Joyce spent the last decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great final work Finnegans Wake amidst personal and financial hardship and just as Europe was being engulfed by the rising tide of fascism. Bringing together new archival discoveries and personal accounts, this book explores one of the central relationships of his final years: that with his friend, confidant and adviser Paul L. Léon. Providing first-hand accounts of Joyce's Paris circle – which included Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov – the book makes available again the text of Lucie (Léon) Noel's personal memoir of the relationship between her husband and the Irish writer (published as James Joyce and Paul L. Léon: The Story of Friendship in 1950), including his valiant rescue of Joyce's Paris archives from occupying Nazi forces. The book also collects for the first time Leon's clandestine letters to his wife from August to December 1941, chronicling his desperate state of body and mind while interned in Drancy, France's main Nazi transit camp, and then in Compiègne, just before he was deported to Auschwitz- Birkenau. Joyce died suddenly on 13 January 1941 in Zurich and Léon was murdered by the Nazis on 4 April 1942 in Silesia. Annotated throughout with contextual commentary by Luca Crispi and Mary Gallagher, this is an essential resource for scholars of James Joyce and of the literary culture of Paris in the 1930s and first years of World War II in France.

Author : Harry Blamires
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:688127745

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The Bloomsday Book by Harry Blamires Pdf

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 2500 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788074843303

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The Collected Works of James Joyce by James Joyce Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of James Joyce: Chamber Music + Dubliners + A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man + Exiles + Ulysses (the original 1922 ed.)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 18820́413 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he perfected. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His complete oeuvre also includes three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786564696

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Ulysses by James Joyce - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by James Joyce Pdf

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Ulysses’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of James Joyce’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Joyce includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Ulysses’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Joyce’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Author : David A. White
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822976998

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The Grand Continuum by David A. White Pdf

The assumptions that literary criticism and philosophy are closely linked—and that both disciplines can learn much from each other—lead David White to examine key passages in James Joyce’s novels both as a philosopher and as literary critic. In so doing, he develops a thesis that Joyce’s attempt to capture the mysterious process whereby perception and consciousness are translated into language entails a fundamental challenge to everyday notions of reality. Joyce’s stylistic brilliance and virtuosity, his destruction of normal syntax and meaning, “shock one into a new reality.” In the book’s final section, White examines the subtle relation between literary language and human consciousness and traces parallels between Joyce’s stylistic experimentation and Wittgenstein’s and Husserl’s ideas about language.

Author : Carol Loeb Shloss
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466832701

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Lucia Joyce by Carol Loeb Shloss Pdf

"Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has kindled a fire in her brain." —James Joyce, 1934 Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden. But in this important new book, Carol Loeb Shloss reveals a different, more dramatic truth: her father loved Lucia, and they shared a deep creative bond. Lucia was born in a pauper's hospital and educated haphazardly across Europe as her penniless father pursued his art. She wanted to strike out on her own and in her twenties emerged, to Joyce's amazement, as a harbinger of expressive modern dance in Paris. He described her then as a wild, beautiful, "fantastic being" whose mind was "as clear and as unsparing as the lightning." The family's only reader of Joyce, she was a child of the imaginative realms her father created, and even after emotional turmoil wrought havoc with her and she was hospitalized in the 1930s, he saw in her a life lived in tandem with his own. Though most of the documents about Lucia have been destroyed, Shloss painstakingly reconstructs the poignant complexities of her life—and with them a vital episode in the early history of psychiatry, for in Joyce's efforts to help her he sought the help of Europe's most advanced doctors, including Jung. In Lucia's world Shloss has also uncovered important material that deepens our understanding of Finnegans Wake, the book that redefined modern literature.