Introducing Joyce Introducing Joyce
A Graphic Guide
Published on 3. September 2015
176 pages
978-1-78578-016-5 (ISBN)
Description
James Joyce is one of the most famous--and controversial--writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers from works such as "Ulysses," but David Norris explores his life and work in this engaging and intellectually rigorous introduction.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Key to Joyce is Language
- A Rigorous Realist
- Dublin 1904
- The Dublin Obsession
- Dublin's Archivist
- Dante's Hell
- "Pull out his eyes."
- School Days
- The Rise and Fall of Parnell
- A.M.D.G.
- Night Town
- Defender of Ibsen
- Joyce as Reviewer
- The Young Bohemian
- Fateful Year, Fateful Day
- 16 June 1904
- Elopement
- The Martello Tower
- Cinematic Joyce
- Dubliners and "Scrupulous Meanness"
- A Restricted Palette - but a Comprehensive Picture
- The Sisters
- Joining up the dots.
- The Technique of the Epiphany
- A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
- Double Dedalus
- Chapter 1: from Embryo
- Chapter 2: School Days
- And the Shadow of Parnell.
- Chapter 3: Repentance
- Chapter 4: Rejecting the Priesthood
- Chapter 5: the Shadow of Another's Language
- And What the Critics Said.
- Eyes, Apologize.
- Financial Rescue
- A Key Masterpiece of 20th Century Modernism
- A 3-Dimensional Figure
- Homer's Odyssey
- Comic Translations
- Homer's Cyclops
- Joyce's Cyclops
- "Throwaway": A Chance Misunderstanding
- Life Imitating Art
- No. 7 Eccles Street
- Proteus: Intellectual Complexities
- Stream of Consciousness
- An Example of Stream of Consciousness
- The Sirens
- Chapter 10: Nausikaa
- Yes ...
- Resolution or Affirmation?
- The Publication of Ulysses
- Sullivan's Champion
- The Old Sinner Dies
- His Daughter's Breakdown
- Finnegans Wake
- The Book of the Night
- What language is it written in?
- A (Blind) Irishman's Revenge
- The Tale of Sex
- HCE and ALP
- But why is it called Finnegans Wake?
- The Perfect Circle
- Vico's Cycles of History
- ALP in Brief
- Dirty Linen
- The Hair of the River
- The Rivers of Universal History
- ALP's Grief
- The Exile's Last Exile
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index
