Joycean Legacies [electronic resource] /
Carpentier, Martha C.author.
Carpentier, Martha Celeste,editor.
These twelve essays analyze the complex pleasures and problems of engaging with James Joyce for subsequent writers, discussing Joyce's textual, stylistic, formal, generic, and biographical influence on an intriguing selection of Irish, British, American, and postcolonial writers from the 1940s to the twenty-first century.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
These twelve essays analyze the complex pleasures and problems of engaging with James Joyce for subsequent writers, discussing Joyce's textual, stylistic, formal, generic, and biographical influence on an intriguing selection of Irish, British, American, and postcolonial writers from the 1940s to the twenty-first century.
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface; Derek Attridge -- 1. Introduction; Martha C. Carpentier -- 2. Elizabeth Foley O'Connor; 'Kate O'Brien, James Joyce, and the 'Lonely Genius'' -- 3. Thomas O'Grady; 'Thanks Be To Joyce: Brendan Behan à Paris' -- 4. Steven Morrison; 'Houses of Decay: Joyce, History, and J.G. Farrell's Troubles' -- 5. Ellen McWilliams; 'Adaptations of Joyce in the Fiction of Patrick McCabe' -- 6. Ruth Hoberman; 'Joyce's Nightmare of History in George Orwell's The Clergyman's Daughter' -- 7. Margaret Hiley; ''Bizarre or dream like': J.R.R. Tolkien on Finnegans Wake' -- 8. Jim Clarke; 'The Baroque Weaving Machine: Contrasting Counterpoint in James Joyce and Anthony Burgess' -- 9. David Vichnar; 'Wars Waged With/Against Joyce: James Joyce and Post-1984 British Fiction' -- 10. Martha C. Carpentier; 'Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and the Joycean Bildungsroman' -- 11. Nathan Oates; ''A Stone in Place of the Heart': The Influence of James Joyce on the Late Style of Raymond Carver' -- 12. Maria McGarrity; 'Imagining the 'wettest indies': The Transatlantic Network of James Joyce and Derek Walcott' -- 13. Leila Baradaran Jamili and Bahman Zarrinjooee; 'An Artistic Metempsychosis: James Joyce's and Sadeq Hedayat's Nonlinear and Chaotic Imagination' -- Index.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
British literature.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.