Reading Joyce

by Pierce; David

• ISBN13: 9781405840613
• ISBN10: 1405840617
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-12-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Reading Joycewill bring to life the person and works of the twentieth century's greatest, amd most difficult to understand, writer. Joyce is one of the most important writers of the 20th Century and has a large and enthusiastic following Joyce is a 'difficult' writer; he needs explanation - this book will help readers to quickly understand and enjoy his writing The author has been teaching Joyce for thirty years so has first hand knowledge of what people really need to get to grips with Joyce Numerous illustrations and photographs in each chapter bring Joyce and his world to life Includes two previously unpublished photographs of the printing rooms of theFreeman's Journal

Author Biography

David Pierce

has taught, read, and written about modern literature and Irish writing for more than thirty years. He is on the Board of the International James Joyce Foundation and the author of James Joyce's Ireland; Yeats's Worlds: Ireland, England and the Poetic Imagination; Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader; Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing; and Joyce and Company (Continuum). David lives in York.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Opening remarks
Difficulty and delay
Snapshots of Joyce
Home, sweet home
1904: Joyce's point of departure	p. 35
Colonial contexts
At 22
Stephen Daedalus
Myths and reality
Defiance and displacement
The unfinished sentences of 'The Sisters'	p. 69
Unfinished sentences
Ritual and folklore
Humour
Saying goodbye in 'Eveline'	p. 89
Emigration
The language of 'Eveline'
Blinds and railings in 'Araby' and 'Two Gallants'	p. 108
'Araby'
'Two Gallants'
Teaching Dubliners	p. 128
Handouts
Student responses
Writing and politics
Series
All the living and the dead
On A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	p. 156
Title, epigraph, orientation
Once upon a time
The interior space
In the beginning was the word
The subject in language
Joyce among the Jesuits
Approaching Ulysses	p. 187
On reading Ulysses for the first time
Structure
Getting help
Thalatta! Thalatta! - an epiphany
Homer
Boul' Mich', Paris
Wild Geese
Anti-clericalism
Leopold Bloom at home and at work	p. 222
7 Eccles Street
Gesabo
A regulated world
The Freeman's Journal
Student responses to Molly Bloom	p. 267
A female gorilla or a slapper?
The German Emperor
A literary bombshell
Breathless
The novel to end all novels
Figuring out Finnegans Wake	p. 301
An unknown cargo
Preliminary notes
The Earwickers of Sidlesham
The paradigmatic ear
Closing moments
Afterword	p. 333
Select bibliography	p. 340
Index	p. 351
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