James Joyce
Subtitle: texts and contexts
By: Len Platt
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781441197610; 9781441113337
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Irish Authors
Description: This is an introduction to reading and studying Joycean texts. It surveys the key contexts -- literary, historical, political, philosophical and compositional -- which shaped and determined them. By identifying and engaging with Joyce's writing methods and style, the book opens up strategies and approaches for reading his complex texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to a 'biografiend'; title: Early works; title: Going forth by day : Ulysses; title: Ulysses, Ireland, empire; title: Reading Finnegans wake; title: The Wake and the 1920s and 1930s; title: 'I do not like that other world' : Joyce's publics.