Author: Don Gifford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520046102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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This second edition is revised and enlarged from Notes for Joyce: "Dubliners" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".
Author: James Joyce
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781853264276
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats's work is essential. This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times. Paradoxical, proud and passionate, Yeats speaks today as eloquently as ever.
Author: Marilyn French
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: John G. Coyle
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231115315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Essays to help you understand and appreciate the works of James Joyce.
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Joseph Heller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849836515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Imagine an author who has become a legend in his own lifetime - all because of the novel he wrote in the first flush of youth. Novelist Eugene Pota is a cultural icon of the twentieth century, struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career. But what to write about when, like so many noted authors before him, all of Pota's output since that first, landmark novel has been scrutinized and dissected - and found wanting? PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, AS AN OLD MAN follows Pota's efforts to settle on a subject for his final work. In his search, Heller - through Pota - pays homage to his favourite authors and discusses the problems that have plagued so many writers whose later works failed to live up to the successes of their first: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, to name but a few. It is a rare and enthralling look into the artist's search for creativity, a search that comes at a point in life when impotence - both sexual and spiritual - has become a frustrating fact. Joseph Heller must have known that this would be his final novel; it stands as a fitting testament to the life and works of a leading light in modern literature.
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393004458
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Commentary on Joyce for the average reader.
Author: Harry Blamires
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780041669503
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Margot Norris
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Author: James Joyce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789357278768
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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James Joyce's book of poems titled Chamber Music was released by Elkin Mathews in May 1907. There were originally thirty-four love poems in the anthology, but two more were added before it was published ("All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land"). Although it is widely believed that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, this is a later Joycean embellishment that gives an earthiness to a title that was initially proposed by his brother Stanislaus and that Joyce (by the time of publication) had come to dislike: "The reason I dislike Chamber Music as a title is that it is too complacent," he admitted to Arthur Symons in 1906. "I would prefer a title that criticized the work while avoiding outright trashing it." Chamber Music's poetry isn't at all racy or evocative of the sound of tinkling urine, in fact. The poems were well-received by critics despite poor sales (less than half of the original print run of 500 had been sold in the first year).
