James Joyce in context
By: edited by John McCourt.
Contributors: McCourt, John, 1965-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780521886628
Subjects: Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation; Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941 -- Appreciation; Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941 -- Knowledge and learning; Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: This collection of original, cohesive and concise essays charts the vital contextual backgrounds to Joyce's life and writing. The volume begins with a chronology of Joyce's publishing history, an analysis of his various biographies and a study of his many published and unpublished letters. It goes on to examine how his works were received in the main twentieth-century critical and theoretical schools. Most importantly, it places Joyce within multiple Irish, British and European contexts, providing a lively sense of the varied and changing world in which he lived, which formed him, and from which he wrote. The essays collectively show how Joyce was rooted in his times, how he is both a product and a critic of his multiple contexts, and how important he remains to the world of literature, criticism and culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Composition and publishing history of the major works : an overview / Stacey Herbert; title: Biography / Finn Fordham; title: Letters / William S. Brockman; title: Genre, place, and value : Joyce's reception, 1904-1941 / John Nash; title: Postwar Joyce / Joseph Brooker; title: Structuralism, deconstruction, post-structuralism / Sam Slote; title: Gender and sexuality / Marian Eide; title: Psychoanalysis / Luke Thurston; title: Postcolonialism / Gregory Castle; title: Genetic Joyce criticism / Dirk Van Hulle; title: Translation studies / Jolanta Wawrzycka; title: Joyce and world literature / Eric Bulson; title: 21st century critical contexts / Sean Latham; title: Being in Joyce's world / Cheryl Temple Herr; title: Dublin / L.M. Cullen; title: Nineteenth-century lyric nationalism / Matthew Campbell; title: The Irish Revival / Clare Hutton; title: The English literary tradition / Patrick Parrinder; title: Paris / Jean-Michel Rabate; title: Trieste / John McCourt; title: Greek and Roman themes / Brian Arkins; title: Medicine / Vike Martina Plock; title: Modernisms / Michael Levenson; title: Music / Timothy Martin; title: Irish and European politics, nationalism, socialism, empire / Brian Caraher; title: Newspapers and popular culture / R. Brandon Kershner; title: Language and languages / Tim Conley; title: Philosophy / Fran O'Rourke; title: Religion / Geert Lernout; title: Science / Mark Morrisson; title: Cinema / Maria di Battista; title: Sex / Christine Froula.