Joyce Country
Literary Scholarship and Irish Culture
Published on 31. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
364 pages
978-1-913087-51-7 (ISBN)
Description
This new book by the eminent critic provides an informative and timely survey of contemporary approaches to Joyce and modern Irish writing over almost 40 years.
In a fresh opening survey Pierce explores the new departure for fiction heralded by A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and this is followed by essays on the hybrid landscape in Ulysses and on the distinctive style and humour of the 'Eumaeus' episode. Other pieces focus on the appeal of Irish short-story writer, Benedict Kiely, anthologies of Irish writing, and Irish writing in the years 2006-9.
The second half of The Joyce Country is devoted to twenty-six reviews of books about Joyce written from the 1980s to the present and grouped under several headings including 'Joyce's European Cities', 'Joyce, Yeats and the Matter of Ireland', 'Ulysses in Perspective', and 'Joyce and Modernism'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Brighton
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913087-51-7 (9781913087517)
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Born in Ocilla in 1954, David studied journalism and mass communications at the University of Georgia, and afterwards was a reporter for The Camden County Tribune in St. Marys, Ga., and later for The Herald in Albany, Ga., for a total of 23 years in the newspaper field. He and his wife, Lucy, reside in Ocilla.