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21. James Joyce, Ulysses, and the
 
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22. Joyce and the Jews: Culture and
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23. Conversations With James Joyce
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24. James Joyce and the Revolution
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25. Occasional, Critical, and Political
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26. James Joyce (Penguin Lives)
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27. James Joyce: A Passionate Exile
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28. Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
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29. Critical Companion to James Joyce
 
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30. James Joyce's Judaic Other (Contraversions:Jews
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35. The Steadfast "Finnegans Wake"
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21. James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography, and 'the Jew' in Modernist Europe
by Neil R. Davison
Paperback: 323 Pages (1998-11-13)
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Representations of "the Jew" have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies.Neil Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious, and political discourse about "the Jew" forms a unifying component of his career. He offers new biographical material, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses to show how Joyce confronts the controversy of "race," the psychology of internalized stereotype, and the contradictions of fin-de-siècle anti-Semitism. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Superb account of Joyce's perceptions of Jews.
An essential guide to understanding Bloom's perception of himself. Davison makes it clear that Joyce's undrstanding of Jews was fluid. ... Read more


22. Joyce and the Jews: Culture and Texts (Florida James Joyce)
by IRA B. NADEL
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23. Conversations With James Joyce
by Arthur Power
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24. James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word: Second Edition
by Colin MacCabe
Paperback: 288 Pages (2002-10-31)
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This second edition of Colin MacCabe's James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word reprints a classic critical text on Joyce and adds a wealth of new material which places the text in its political and historical context. The argument links politics and literature, sex and language, to provide an account of Joyce which places him continually in both Irish and European history. ... Read more


25. Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing (Oxford World's Classics)
by James Joyce
Paperback: 416 Pages (2002-03-21)
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'I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism'James Joyce's non-fictional writings address diverse issues: aesthetics, the functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history, England's literature and empire.This collection includes newspaper articles, reviews, lectures, and propagandizing essays that are consciously public, direct, and communicative.It covers forty years of Joyce's life and maps important changes in his opinions about politics, especially Irish politics, about the relationship of literature to history, and about writers who remained important to him such as Mangan, Blake, Defoe, Ibsen, Wilde, and Shaw.These pieces also clarify and illuminate the transformations in Joyce's fiction, from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to the first drafts of Ulysses.Gathering together more than fifty essays, several of which have never been available in an English edition, this volume is the most complete and the most helpfully annotated collection. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Readable Joyce Writings
Kevin Barry compiles a collection of James Joyce's critical writings in Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing.This collection includes articles, manuscripts, and lectures that had been previously published in Irish and Italian journals.Most of the writings parallel what he wrote about in Dubliners, Ulysses, and his creative poetry.Barry suggests that the journalistic criticism that James Joyce wrote about Ireland were to be published in one single volume, which was supposed to be geard toward an Italian audience in which he lectured to in Trieste.

This book offers readers an insight on Joyce's political and critical meanderings that relate to all gamuts of Irish society.As one reads these writings, one will observe a sense of naivite in Joyce's early writings, but will see his growth and maturation as a writer in later ones.Joyce covers history as well as literature in long and short vignettes.The articles, book reviews, and manuscripts were written over a 40 year period of Joyce's life.They show his growth as a critical writer and author from a teenager to an adult.He relates issues pertaining to Irish society and literature, James Clarence Mangan, Oscar Wilde, and George Meredith as well as the most prominent writers in British literature, Daniel Defoe, William Blake, and Charles Dickens.In particular, several of the writings have both a serious and humorous tone that makes Joyce's writings even more interesting to read.

Barry does a fine job at presenting these samples of Joyce's writings.The footnotes and the explanatory notes are extremely helpful in providing background information for the book.Conor Deane deserves praises for translating Joyce's works from Italian to English, and for those who want to see the original transcript of each writing, they are included in Italian and French in the Appendix section of the book.

Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing is recommended reading for readers interested in having a better understanding of James Joyce's literary criticism.In addition, the works offer insight to how he approached his early and colossal work, Dubliners and Ulysses.It is, indeed, recommended for the curious literature reader or Joyce aficionado. ... Read more


26. James Joyce (Penguin Lives)
by Edna O'Brien
Hardcover: 192 Pages (1999-10-01)
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Although Edna O'Brien has never trafficked in James Joyce'shead-over-heels brand of high modernism, she does have a couple of characteristics in common with her great predecessor. After all, both authors engaged in a profoundly ambivalent excoriation of their native Ireland. And while O'Brien's sexual politics can make Joyce seem like a fusty Edwardian by comparison, both novelists got a certain amount of flack for their erotic frankness. So this latest match from the Penguin Lives series seems like a good one--and largely lives up to its promise. O'Brien makes no pretense of competing with Richard Ellmann's immense, magisterial portrait. Instead she has concocted in James Joyce something that resembles one of her own novels: a spirited, lyrical, and acerbic narrative that just happens to feature the author of Ulysses in the starring role.

Having experienced the constrictions of Irish life firsthand, O'Brien is particularly good on Joyce's downwardly mobile childhood. Was his resulting hatred of his native land exaggerated? Apparently not:

No one who has not lived in such straitened and hideous circumstances can understand the battering of that upbringing. All the more because they had come down in the world, a tumble from semi-gentility, servants, a nicely laid table, cut glasses, a piano, the accoutrements of middle-class life, relegated to the near slums in Mountjoy Square, the gaunt spectral mansions in which children sat like mice in the gaping doorways.
The author also gives a vivid sense of her subject's devotion to his art, an altar upon which he happily sacrificed his family, health, friends, and even his eyesight. She is stubborn in her defense of Joyce's sublime irresponsibility, which she ascribes to all writers: "It is a paradox that while wrestling with the language to capture the human condition they become more callous, and cut off from the very human traits which they so glisteningly depict." O'Brien's own wrestling match in James Joyce has, to be honest, its share of pins and minor pratfalls: there are some embarrassing repetitions and punctuational oddities, and her occasional assimilation of Joyce's own language is an awkward (if heartfelt) form of homage. Still, when she sticks to her own inflections, her account of this "funnominal man" is an eminently readable and entertaining dose of Irish bitters. --James MarcusBook Description
The fifth book in the bestselling Penguin Lives -- Penguin Lives pairs celebrated writers with famous Great writers on great figures individuals who have shaped our thinking.

With all the earthy sensuality and majestic storytelling that have made her one of Ireland's preeminent writers, award-winning novelist Edna O'Brien paints the most passionate, personal, and sensuous portrait of her fellow countryman yet written.James Joyce is a return journey to the land of politics, history, and the saints and scholars that shaped this creator of the twentieth century's most groundbreaking novel, Ulysses.

In her beautiful, poetic telling, O'Brien traces Joyce's early days as the rambunctious young Jesuit student; his falling in love with a tall, red-haired Galway girl named Nora Barnacle on Bloomsday; and his exile to Trieste where he met with success, love, and finally, despair. Only Edna O'Brien, with her deft, supple prose, her rebel Irish heart, and her kindred spirit, could capture the brilliance and complexity of this great modern master. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Useful if unglittering portrait of a titan of literature
Reading any biography of James Joyce reminds me of something that Bernard DeVoto once said to Robert Frost after the other had behaved abominably towards Archibald MacLeish on several occasions in the space of a few days:"Robert, you are a great poet, but a bad man."What can the biographer do with Joyce?Was he a great writer?His astonishing literary genius iscompletely beyond debate.But he was almost completely lacking in humane qualities, and it isn't clear that he was capable of any relationship with any human being surpassed the value a tool had for its user.There are other equally unpleasant figures in the history of literature, but not many, and I've yet to read a biography of Joyce that creates the suspicion that meeting him might have been a positive experience.In fact, for me reading about Joyce's life has in ways acted as an impediment to appreciating his books.The difficulty is that he stuffs so much of his own experience into his books that the reader is forced to know at least the rudiments.Indeed, both PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN and ULYSSES feature his alter ego Stephen Hero as the/or a major character.

If any biography of Joyce is the biography of a morally repulsive individual, there is at least the consolation of his being repulsive on an epic scale.If Joyce is not a human being we can admire as a person, as opposed to a literary genius, he is as least an interesting brute.He fascinates with his utter lack of compunction in his use and misuse and abuse of others.It leads to the question of what personal qualities made it possible for him to mistreat so many people.Unfortunately, O'Brien does not help us discover this.In fact, I find that in her treatment of his life, Joyce the human being doesn't emerge in any detectable way.I ended the book without much of a sense of how he might have seemed if I had encountered him on the street.Instead, O'Brien's Joyce feels very much like a character in a novel.He seems unembedded in his world, partially exacerbated by O'Brien persistent failure to relate Joyce to any social or historical events.She rarely dates events, and often goes twenty or thirty pages without noting a specific date.For instance, very little dating is provided in conjunction with the obscenity trial in New York.If the book contained a chronology at the front or back of the book this might not be so unfortunate.This is important because other writers at approximately the same time were also facing censorship trials, such as D. H. Lawrence for THE RAINBOW, so Joyce's case was not an isolated incident.She also left so much out!She neglects, for instance, to mention that Joyce and Proust once shared a cab ride.Perhaps not a crucial moment for either writer, but given that in the English speaking world Proust and Joyce are widely regarded as the two literary giants of the 20th century, while internationally Joyce is considered second only to Proust one would have expected some acknowledgement of their encounter.So many details like this are excised from Joyce's story.The book also suffers by a complete lack of critical tools.As noted above, there is no chronology, but there is also no index and not much of a bibliography.These are lacks that detract from the book's overall usefulness.

Where O'Brien excels is when she writes about the books themselves.Although I did not feel like I gained much insight into Joyce (that Joyce was a world-historical jerk is simple to document, but the intricacies of why he was and why people let him get away from it was largely untouched upon), O'Brien the novelist did a marvelous job of illuminating many aspects of the books themselves.Although she does not write exhaustively about any of Joyce's works, every passage she writes shimmers with understanding and insight.

In one sense there is no overwhelming need for any new biography of James Joyce.Richard Ellmann's magisterial biography is not merely the finest book on Joyce, but arguably the finest English-language literary biography of the past half century.Given the large bulk of Ellmann's work, however, a solid brief biography is, however, highly desirable.I am not confident that O'Brien's book meets this need.The tone is far too impressionistic, the attention to historical and chronological detail too slight.I can recommend this to readers of Joyce who want to know a bit more about him, but I hope that someone writes a new biography sometime in the next few years.

5-0 out of 5 stars A writer's introduction to Joyce
This book is a good introduction to Joyce. It is written with a real feel for his language and life. It is not the overwhelming biographical scholarship of Ellmann, nor the detailed reading of the text much academic scholarship gives.It is however a competent and at times especially insightful look into the tribulations of the writer's life As part of the popular Penguin series in which Writers tell of the lives of other writers, O'Brien focuses on what most interests her.She talks about the insult of the Joyce family's poverty , and what it meant for them to go down from a kind of bourgeois life to one of great neediness. She writes about Joyce's love life and she tells the story of his infidelities and his complicated relationship to his wife Nora without going into each particular incident at length. She has an interesting few pages on reader reaction to ' Ulysses' including Virginia Woolf's comment calling it ' underbred, the effort of a ' queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples' In this work O'Brien often generalizes insightfully about the writer's condition in general, maintaining controversially that the more dedicated the writer is , and the more capable of seeing into the feeling of others on the page, the more monstrous the writer becomes in life. She compares Joyce's lonely end with that of Tolstoy, O'Neill, Virginia Woolf and Dickens. She says ,"A writer and especially a great writer, feels both more and less about human grief, being at once celebrant, witness and victim. If the writing ceases or seems to cease the mind so occupied with the stringing of words is fallow.There was nothing he(Joyce at the seperation from Nora) admitted but rage and despair in his heart, the rage of a child and the despair of a broken man." p. 176
She also provides very fragmentary but good analysis of Ulysses, explaining the stylistic genius of the ' Oxen in the Sun episode ' where Joyce parodies and rewrites the history of the English language stylistically.
It is light and quick reading , a good glance at the great man's work and life.

5-0 out of 5 stars a great writer on a great writer
Biographies in this series are the perfect fun size.Light, but long enough to have a lot of real stuff in them, more than a mere introduction.

The very first sentence of this book invites you into Joyce with an imitation of his writing style, & after that Edna O'Brien shares generously & mellifluously her great understanding of the man, his life, & his work, drawing on scholarly commentary of his books & from the journals & letters of him & the people around him so that you know how they all felt about his life & their lives in themselves & for the purposes of this biography in relation to him.It's so well-written & so interesting -- what a life he had, crazy as he was, that -- I could hardly put it down.Edna O'Brien's great interest in him comes across truly.

5-0 out of 5 stars Short but sweet
I read this book at the Jersey shore. Joyce's life was as bizarre as his fiction. This book gives you an insight into what Joyce was trying to do with "Ulysses" and later "Finegan's Wake." Of course, the Ellmann bio is still the definitive. This is a great little read with sand and roasted peanuts.

5-0 out of 5 stars A Singular Genius
This is one of several volumes in the Penguin Lives Series, each of which written by a distinguished author in her or his own right. Each provides a concise but remarkably comprehensive biography of its subject in combination with a penetrating analysis of the significance of that subject's life and career. I think this is a brilliant concept. My only complaint (albeit a quibble) is that even an abbreviated index is not provided. Those who wish to learn more about the given subject are directed to other sources.

When preparing to review various volumes in this series, I have struggled with determining what would be of greatest interest and assistance to those who read my reviews. Finally I decided that a few brief excerpts and then some concluding comments of my own would be appropriate.

On Joyce and Ireland: "Of all the great Irish writers, Joyce's relationship with his country remains the most incensed and yet the most meditative. Beckett, a much more cloistered man, was unequivocal; he made France his home and eventually wrote in French and though his elegiac works carry the breath of his native land, he did not expect Foxrock, his birthplace, to be etched in the consciousness of the world. Joyce did. He determined to reinvent the city where he had been marginalized, laughed at and barred from literary circles. he would be the poet of his race." (page 15)

On criticisms of his portrayal of Dublin: Joyce "said he was not to be blamed for the odor of ash pits and rotted cabbage and offal in these stories [i.e. in Dubliners] because that was how he saw his city. 'We are foolish, comic, motionless, corrupted, yet we are worthy of sympathy too,' he laughed haughtily and added that if Ireland were to deny that sympathy to its characters, the rest of the world would not. In this he was mistaken." (page 78)

On his deteriorating health: "The strains were beginning to show. he had endocrine treatment for his arthritis, had to have all his teeth removed and was fitted with permanent plates. His eyesight so worsened that he had only one-seventh normal vision. He was given iodine leeches for his bad eye but soon it was clear that they would have to operate." (page 130)

On his enigmatic nature: "The truth is that the Joyce [others] saw was a fraction of the inner man. No one knew Joyce, only himself, no one could. His imagination was meteoric, his mind ceaseless in the accruing of knowledge, words crackling in his head, images crowding in on him 'like the shades at the entrance to the underworld.' What he wanted to do was to wrest the secret from life and that could only be done through language because, as he said, the history of people is the history of language." (pages 165-166)

As is also true of the other volumes in the "Penguin Lives" series, this one provides all of the essential historical and biographical information but its greatest strength lies in the extended commentary, in this instance by Edna O'Brien. She also includes a brief but sufficient "Bibliography" for those who wish to learn more about Joyce. I hope these brief excerpts encourage those who read this review to read O'Brien's biography. It is indeed a brilliant achievement. ... Read more


27. James Joyce: A Passionate Exile
by John McCourt
Hardcover: 112 Pages (2001-03-22)
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James Joyce: A Passionate Exile is a revealing new account of the life, times and writings of the twentieth century's most distinguished novelist. Combining words with an extraordinary collection of contemporary photographs and other images, it depicts his family's fall from riches to rags and his experience of growing up in late nineteenth century Dublin. Author and Joyce scholar John McCourt also examines Joyce's relationship with his life-long partner, Nora Barnacle, and casts new light on their 40-year voluntary exile in Europe, first in the cosmopolitan Adriatic port of Trieste, then in lively wartime Zurich and finally in Paris, the artistic centre of the world in the 1920s and 30s.Exile from Ireland was a necessary condition for Joyce to forge in the smithy of his soul the uncreated conscience of his race in his magnificent short story collection Dubliners, in his intense bildungsroman A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and his modern epic Ulysses. ... Read more


28. Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
by James Joyce
Paperback: 352 Pages (2001-03-15)
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'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne'James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories.Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation in Ireland'.Joyce's aim was to tell the truth - to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism, reveal to the Irish the unromantic reality the recognition of which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country. Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners - a death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled - and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.Download Description
Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from "stories of my childhood" through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Irish Stew
Because "Ulysses" is so imposing with its epic length and pages of solid, tiny text I decided to get my feet wet with "Dubliners," which is not quite half the other's length.From what I read with "Dubliners", I'll have to give "Ulysses" a shot in the near future.

Normally I'd do an obligatory plot summary, but that would be a pointless exercise because A) There are 15 short stories that comprise the book and B) None of them really has a traditional "plot" to speak of.Rather, "Dubliners" is a serious of what we in modern parlance would call "character sketches."Think of it as each story being a portrait of some person or scene done in painstakingly vivid detail.Each story focuses on some small moment that often leads the character to discovering a melancholy truth about life.

The first stories focus on children encountering the harsh realities of the adult world--a priest dying and an encounter with a creepy, crazy old man--and then move on to teenage love and then more adult problems of marriage, family, and politics before a final meditation on death in the aptly-titled "The Dead."

The way Joyce captures the humanity of each character is so stunning; he taps into the soul of these people to expose the secrets, wishes, hopes, and fears that reside within each of us.It's hard not to see a part of yourself in one or more of these characters, almost as if Joyce knew you over 90 years ago better than you know yourself right now.Because while the technology may change, the human psyche remains the same.

The reason I can't give this four stars is that like any short story collection there's a fatigue that sets in upon reading "Dubliners."The longer the collection goes on, the more similarities can be seen in the characters and the situations, the descriptions and the dialog.It's like listening to an album of music and noting that song 10 sounds a lot like song 5, which sounds a lot like song 2.There's really no way to avoid that fatigue unless the writer uses a completely different style each time.

As well, reading a book written over 90 years ago that's set in Ireland can be a challenge for a modern (not quite 90) year old American.Footnotes and such can be helpful, but it also interrupts the flow of the reading.

Still, Joyce's uncanny knowledge of humanity is well worth any fatigue or nuisances.

That is all.

3-0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written but underwhelming
I enjoyed four of the fifteen stories in this book immensely. The others were great for their prose, depiction of people at certain junctures in their life, and reflection of Dublin at the turn of the Century, but otherwise not compelling.

"The Dead," his most enduring and evocative piece of short fiction, did nothing for me. I loved A Little Cloud, Couterparts, A Painful Case, and Eveline.

I read the Barnes&Noble Classic edition. The maps at the beginning of each story added no value.

After reading this book I'm ready for some contemporary fiction.

5-0 out of 5 stars Great Vignettes Of Dublin Life and A Great way to introduce yourself to James Joyce
Admittedly Joyce's better known works can seem quite daunting to the uninitiated but here in these short character sketches a reader can begin to understand what all fuss is about and enjoy some wonderfully written short stories in the bargain.

The stories are consistently good and from the very first where a young boy encounters the death of someone he knows for the first time the tales and the characters are engaging. Highly recommended !

5-0 out of 5 stars Untitled
I don't really have anything thoughtful to say exept that after reading this book multiple times, I think that it is tight, but breathes, and is choreographed as best as a human being could do, and in that regard, it is very much like a Beatles album, and should be esteemed in like manner.

4-0 out of 5 stars Frustratingly short short stories
I had given up on James Joyce after finding "Ulysses" too murky and disorienting.When I mentioned this to a young handsome literature student in a Dublin pub, he suggested I try "Dubliners" instead.When I got back home I checked a copy out of the library and found it hard to believe this collection of stories was written by the same man who confounded me before. I found each story almost instantly engaging (except the one about the election; too far removed from my modern American experience, I guess), and most seemed to end abruptly.This may be why another reviewer wrote that the stories had no climax, but I simply wanted more.I'm here on Amazon to buy a copy because I still want more.

So did Joyce write these stories and then hit the Absinthe before writing "Ulysses"?Or am I thinking of Oscar Wilde...? ... Read more


29. Critical Companion to James Joyce (Critical Companion to)
by A. Nicholas Fargnoli, Michael Patrick Gillespie
Paperback: 464 Pages (2006-05-30)
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30. James Joyce's Judaic Other (Contraversions:Jews and Other Differen)
by Marilyn Reizbaum
 Hardcover: 208 Pages (1999-05-01)
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How does recent scholarship on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension of James Joyce’s writing? What light has Joyce himself already cast on the complex question of their relationship? This book poses these questions in terms of models of the other drawn from psychoanalytic and cultural studies and from Jewish cultural studies, arguing that in Joyce the emblematic figure of otherness is “the Jew.”

The work of Emmanuel Levinas, Sander Gilman, Gillian Rose, Homi Bhabha, among others, is brought to bear on the literature, by Jews and non-Jews alike, that has forged the representation of Jews and Judaism in this century. Joyce was familiar with this literature, like that of Theodor Herzl. Joyce sholarship has largely neglected even these sources, however, including Max Nordau, who contributed significantly to the philosophy of Zionism, and the literature on the “psychobiology” of race—so prominent in the fin de siècle—all of which circulates around and through Joyce’s depictions of Jews and Jewishness.

Several Joyce scholars have shown the significance of the concept of the other for Joyce’s work and, more recently, have employed a variety of approaches from within contemporary deliberations of the ideology of race, gender, and nationality to illuminate its impact. The author combines these approaches to demonstrate how any modern characterization of otherness must be informed by historical representations of “the Jew” and, consequently, by the history of anti-Semitism. She does so through a thematics and poetics of Jewishness that together form a discourse and method for Joyce’s novel.

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31. Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert's Paris Journal (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint)
by Stuart Gilbert, Thomas F. Staley, James Joyce
Hardcover: 103 Pages (1993-04)
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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 Léon, 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. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Joyce revealed , from his previously unpublished letters .
This book gives the reader a much better understanding of Joyce and hiswritings . It fills in many gaps in this 'larger then life' authors career.The many previously unpublished letters to his friend and literarycollaborator , Stuart Gilbert , allow one to see the author is his ownlight . The rare photos , provide the reader with an intriguing glimpse ofthis colorful author .

5-0 out of 5 stars Rare insight into the thinking of this enigmatic author.
A must have book for the serious James Joyce scholar .

4-0 out of 5 stars Comment from Randolph Lewis, co-editor
I co-edited this important literary document with Dr. Thomas F. Staley, Director of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, where the vast Stuart Gilbert collection wasacquired in the early 1990s. Gilbert was aBritish citizen, who, after retiring from his work as a judge in Burma,married a French woman and moved to Paris in the early 1920s to pursue moreintellectual pursuits. Once in Paris, he became an intimate part of theliterary circle surrounding James Joyce, and wrote the first book on Joyce("James Joyce's Ulysses"), before falling out of favor with him.His dyspeptic journal, at turns scandalous and illuminating, gives aninside account of life in the Parisian literary circles where Joyce livedand worked, and is prefaced by an introductory essay by Dr. Staley, one ofthe leading scholars of literary modernism. It should be useful to the manystudents and scholars interested in better appreciating Joyce, Europeanmodernism generally, or simply the joys of Paris in thetwenties.

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32. My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years
by Stanislaus Joyce
 Paperback: 256 Pages (1982-04)
list price: US$8.95
Isbn: 0571118038
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The return of a classic: This biography of the young James Joyce is "a remarkable exposition of the relationship between a famous man and [his] brother."--T. S. Eliot.

Stanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper: he was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, the same childhood influences, and had the same literary instinct, but in Stanislaus it was channeled into sober academic pursuit, while in James it evolved into gaiety, wild whimsy, and at times sodden despair.

Covering the first twenty-two years of James Joyce's life in Dublin and Trieste, My Brother's Keeper is a window onto the drama that was his youth. Thanks to Stanislaus's superb memory and sure hand, here we find the Dublin of Dubliners: the streets, neighbors, churches, and unforgettable eccentrics. Here we see the model for Ulysses' Simon Dedalus: James' father, a dour and violent figure when in his cups. Here are the Joyces in their own home, and the minor characters that pepper A Portrait of the Artist: Eileen, Leopold Bloom's comely daughter; Mrs. Riordan, the surly teacher; Mr. Casey, the political agitator. And finally, here is Trieste, a place of exile for Stanislaus but a retreat for James. Stanislaus Joyce has fashioned both an invaluable primary source for his brother's opaque masterpieces and a loving memoir of his brother's early life. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT INSIGHT INTO THE ARTIST
STan really did keep and care for James and his family, including when JAmes briefly returned to Ireland to establish an art cinema chain leaving his family in ITaly.

Excellent insight into the brilliant writer by his also brilliant brother. Please read this book for greater understanding and afection for the specifics of Joyce's work (how stan was pictured in the story A Painful Case), although the view of the universal themes grows dim as we can no longer see the woods for the trees

Essential to any complete James JOyce bookshelf and a wonderful and grateful gift for any member of the fervent Joycean faith
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33. James Joyce: Ulysses (Landmarks of World Literature)
by Vincent Sherry
Hardcover: 141 Pages (1995-01-27)
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Isbn: 052142075X
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Vincent Sherry addresses two apparently separate preoccupations in Ulysses - its reliance on ancient epic, and its highly experimental verbal art - and develops new, unifying critical arguments through a detailed, sequenced reading of the text. Joyce's appropriation of Homer is aligned with other contemporary reconstructions of the Odyssey, in particular Samuel Butler's and Georg Lukacs', and this historically enriched view opens up a new axis of value in Ulysses: a shift from the interior sphere of the modern novel to the social wholeness of classical epic. Related issues in language philosophy point up a difference between concrete specifics and generic verbal abstractions, a problem Joyce understands as the tension between radical individuality and the generalising, socialising force of words. ... Read more


34. The Books at the Wake: A Study of Literary Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (Arcturus Books, 126)
by James S. Atherton
Paperback: 308 Pages (1974-10-01)
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Isbn: 0809306875
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In Finnegans Wake Joyce uses world lit­erature, great and small, sacred and pro­fane, as one of the most important and frequent of his sources. Setting out to ex­plore these literary allusions, Mr. Atherton sheds a great deal of light upon other as­pects of Joyce’s work. Entire chapters are devoted to such major figures as Swift and Lewis Carroll, while less important influences are grouped together under such headings as “The Irish Writers” and “The Fathers of the Church.” He also sur­veys the various interpretations of Finnegans Wake, and makes use of the Letters of James Joyce and the manuscript of Fin­negans Wake in the British Museum.
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5-0 out of 5 stars Reference required
Atherton's book is "absotively" wonderful. Appreciating the Wake certainly requires this book. Numerous linguistic influences on Joyce from various authors are catalogued. Particularly interesting is thelengthy analysis of Lewis Carroll's literary influence on Joyce:

1. Carroll is presumably the undisputed inventor of the portmanteau word - a word packed with multiple meanings. Carroll was content to have dual meaning but Joyce packed as many meanings as possible into his words.

2. Carroll (like Joyce) worked with successive alterations of one letter in a word - meat, meet, mate, maze, etc. Sections of the Wake which obliquely referenced Carroll would routinely incorporate this technique.

3. Alice served as an alterego for Joyce's heroine ALP, where "Wonderlawn" is code for the Garden of Eden.

In short, Joyce found much in Carroll's work that (in the case of the portmanteauword, to his surprise) neatly "dovetallied" with his own "work in progress". The Books at the Wake is a fascinating and well-written collection of many more such analyses (Shakespeare, Blake, Vico, etc.).

5-0 out of 5 stars A helpful "tour guide" through Finnegan's Wake
Atherton's book helped me begin to understand Joyce's "copy/paste" style.His preface provides an excellent philosphical framework within which the Wake can be understood.Hischapters that follow explain in great detail how Joyce used the works ofVico, Swift, and the world's sacred books to construct his masterpiece. Atherton goes on to cite and explain hundreds of Joyce's literaryreferences in Finnegans Wake.This is a good book for any James Joyce fan.

5-0 out of 5 stars One of the 10 best books on the subject.
I have been checking the first edition of this book out of my library for months, and am delighted to see a paperback edition in print.It's one of the indispensible guides to the Wake, and I'm glad to see it readily available. ... Read more


35. The Steadfast "Finnegans Wake"
by Grace Eckley
 Hardcover: 354 Pages (1993-12-21)
list price: US$61.50
Isbn: 0819192732
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This breakthrough in literary criticism for the first time makes available a college-level textbook for James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake". The Victorian journalist William T. Stead provides an epic hero and a narrative sequence for the novel as well as thousands of facts about the text. The Stead source solves mysteries not fathomed with "The Skeleton Key" to "Finnegans Wake": the identities of the "Wake's" narrator and of the sleeping giant "dreamer," the exact nature of Earwicker's "sin in the park," the author of the mysterious letter and its sense, the reason personalities such as Shem and Shaun appear with multiple names, and the identity of the "Maggies." The Stead source unifies the "bits and pieces" and fills in the "vast spaces of nonsense," of which prior critics have complained. ... Read more


36. James Joyce and the Question of History
by James Fairhall
Paperback: 304 Pages (1996-01-26)
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This ground-breaking book examines the work of James Joyce as a response to Irish and European history. Fairhall situates Joyce in his historical moment and explores Joyce's attitudes towards colonialism, nationalism, World War I, gender, and class. Although the book draws on a wide range of critical theories, it is clearly written and is accessible to any reader interested in the relation between Joyce's works and history. ... Read more


37. A Companion to James Joyce (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Hardcover: 464 Pages (2008-01-09)
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Asin: 1405110449
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A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce’s writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures.


  • Brings together 25 newly-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the field
  • Explores Joyce’s distinctive cultural place in Irish, British and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere in the world
  • A comprehensive and timely Companion to current debates and possible areas of future development in Joyce studies
  • Offers new critical readings of several of Joyce’s works, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses
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38. James Joyce's Ulysses: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism)
Paperback: 288 Pages (2004-01-29)
list price: US$19.95 -- used & new: US$6.90
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Asin: 0195158318
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James Joyce's Ulysses is probably the most famous-or notorious-novel published in the twentieth century. Its length and difficulty mean that readers often turn to critical studies to help them in getting the most out of it. But the vast quantity of secondary literature on the book poses problems for readers, who often don't know where to begin. This casebook includes some of the most influential critics to have written on Joyce, such as Hugh Kenner and Fritz Senn, as well as newer voices who have made a considerable impact in recent years. A wide range of critical schools is represented, from textual analysis to historical and psychoanalytic approaches, from feminism to post-colonialism. One essay considers the relation between art and life, nature and culture, in Ulysses, while another explores the implications of the impassioned debates about the proper editing of Joyce's great work. In an iconoclastic discussion of the book, Leo Bersani finds reasons for giving up reading Joyce. All the contributions are characterized by scrupulous attention to Joyce's words and a sense of the powerful challenge his work offers to our ways of thinking about ourselves, our world, and our language. Also included are records of some of the conversations Joyce had with his friend Frank Budgen during the composition of Ulysses in Zurich, and in an appendix readers will find a version of the schema which Joyce drew up as a guide to his book. Derek Attridge provides an introduction that offers advice on reading Ulysses for the first time, an account of the remarkable story of its composition, and an outline of the history of the critical reception that has played such an important part in our understanding and enjoyment of this extraordinary work. ... Read more


39. Exile of James Joyce
by Joyce Cixous, Sally Purcell
 Hardcover: 765 Pages (1980-06)
list price: US$35.00
Isbn: 0714535079
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40. Bely, Joyce, and Doblin: Peripatetics in the City Novel (Florida James Joyce)
by PETER I. BARTA
 Hardcover: 152 Pages (1996-07-14)
list price: US$59.95 -- used & new: US$53.30
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Asin: 0813014506
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