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1st Edition

James Joyce and Modern Literature

Edited By W. J. McCormack, Alistair Stead Copyright 1982
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge
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This collection, first published in 1982, brings together thirteen writers from a wide variety of critical traditions to take a fresh look at Joyce and his crucial position not only in English literature but in modern literature as a whole. Comparative views of his work include reflections on his relations to Shakespeare, Blake, MacDiarmid, and the Anglo-Irish revival. Essays, story and poems... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Notes on Contributors;  Introduction;  1. Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’ and the futility of modernism  2. Two More Gallants  3. ‘Planetary music’: James Joyce and the Romantic example  4. Joyce and the displaced author  5. Leaving the Island  6. Nightmares of history: James Joyce and the phenomenon of Anglo-Irish literature  7. Martello  8. ‘Ulysses’, modernism, and Marxist criticism  9. ‘Ulysses’ in history  10. Reflections on Eumaeus: Ways of error and glory in ‘Ulysses’  11. Joyce and literary tradition: Language living, dead, and resurrected, from Genesis to Guinnesses  12. Reading ‘Finnegans Wake’  13. James Joyce and Hugh MacDiarmid;  Index

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