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By James Joyce. 2006
Largely autobiographical novel portrays the Irish childhood, adolescence, and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus, one of the leading characters in…
Joyce's Ulysses (BR 10287). Stephen's growing self-awareness as an artist forces him to reject the narrow world in which he was brought up. Includes 2006 introduction by Langdon Hammer. 1916By James Joyce. 2002
Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of…
emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane. The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'. Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves. James Joyce (1882-1941), the eldest of ten children, was born in Dublin, but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing. He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life and was plagued by near blindness and the grief of his daughter's mental illness. If you enjoyed A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, you might like Joyce's Dubliners, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'There is nothing more vivid or beautiful in all Joyce's writing. It has the searing clarity of truth . . . but is rich with myth and symbol'Sunday Times 'James Joyce was and remains almost unique among novelists in that he published nothing but masterpieces'The Times Literary SupplementBy James Joyce. 2013
Banned in the United States until 1934 on account of its "pornographic" content, this controversial classic transforms a single day…
in Dublin into an experimental epic. James Joyce's psychological novel vividly re-creates the sights, sounds, smells, and voices of a June day in 1904 within a structure loosely based on Homer's Odyssey. Famed for the stream-of-consciousness technique that marked the beginning of modernist literature, the tale abounds in parodies, riddles, and sparkling wordplay. The long shadow it casts over subsequent novels has raised the suggestion that English-language fiction since 1922 has been a series of footnotes to Joyce's masterpiece.Few first editions generate more excitement among traders in rare books than Ulysses. Since the novel's debut, many experts have reinterpreted surviving drafts to produce revised texts, but this edition remains the one that Joyce himself reviewed and corrected prior to the initial publication. Thus, this volume represents the version truest to the author's vision.By James Joyce. 2005
When you remember that Dublin has been a capital for thousands of years James Joyce once wrote to…
his brother that it is the second city of the British Empire that it is nearly three times as big as Venice it seems strange that no artist has given it to the world Dubliners completed when James Joyce was only twenty-five is the first of his works to demonstrate the unique innovative style that would make him one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century Joyce turns his discerning eye to Dublin s lower middle class -- to the petit-bourgeois world of shopkeepers tradesmen functionaries and clerks The result is a portrait of Dublin life in the early 1900s an undisputed masterpiece of human experience played out against a defeated city Washington Square Press Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader This edition of Dubliners has been prepared by Dr Stephen Watt a notable Joyce scholar and professor of English at Indiana University It includes his introduction a selection of critical excerpts and a unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographsJames Augustine[ Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be…
one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilised. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegan’s Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking."However, even proponents of Ulysses such as Anthony Burgess have described the book as "inimitable, and also possibly mad". (Excerpt from Wikipedia)Edited by Daniel R. Schwarz. Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary…
Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. Every volume also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms. New editions reprint cultural documents that contextualize the literary works and feature essays that show how critical perspectives can be combined.By James Joyce. 2021
El primer libro en prosa de James Joyce, quince relatos maestros en los que empezó a delinear su mitología personal…
acerca de la ciudad de Dublín Obra de juventud escrita con increíble madurez, Dublineses ofrece quince relatos sobre la ciudad natal de James Joyce, agrupados en torno a la infancia, la adolescencia, la madurez y la esfera pública. Desde el despertar erótico de un jovencito hasta la revelación de un marido al final de una fiesta, pasando por las dudas de una muchacha antes de escapar con un marinero, el conjunto captura momentos decisivos en la vida de una sociedad que se debate con su hipocresía y su estancamiento. La lente realista de Joyce, sin embargo, también permite vislumbrar el camino de Dublín hacia la modernidad y, entretanto, crear una nueva literatura urbana. Sobre la obra y el autor:«Dublineses sigue exhibiendo una distinción que pocos han cuestionado y que menos aún han alcanzado.»Eimear McBride «Aquí Joyce encontró sus bases, la narración impersonal que no descuida nada, ni olvida una línea ni un color.»Italo Svevo «Su imaginación era meteórica, su mente incesante a la hora de adquirir conocimientos; las palabras restallaban en su cabeza, las imágenes se amontonaban a su alrededor.»Edna O'Brien «Dublineses muestra una ciudad llena de los colores y los matices del otoño y el invierno. Ofrece imágenes lo bastante poderosas para ser repudiadas con verdadera energía cómica en Ulises.»Colm TóibínBy James Joyce. 2021
“This richly filled Norton Critical Edition contains a reliably edited and annotated text of A Portrait of the Artist as…
a Young Man; extracts from some of Joyce’s other works; historical, religious, aesthetic, and literary writings from the novel’s time period; and recent critical essays that consider the novel from a wide range of positions and approaches. This edition is sure to be welcomed by instructors, students, and readers of all kinds.” ?Michael Groden, Western University, Canada This Norton Critical Edition includes: Hans Walter Gabler’s acclaimed text of Joyce’s 1916 coming-of-age novel, accompanied by Gabler’s introduction and textual notes. Preface and revised and expanded explanatory annotations by John Paul Riquelme. Other writings by James Joyce closely related to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, new to the Second Edition. Nine illustrations. “Backgrounds and Contexts,” including a wealth of materials, topically organized: “Political Nationalism: Irish History, 1798–1916,” “The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival,” “Religion,” and “Aesthetic Backgrounds.” Twelve major critical assessments, seven of them new to the Second Edition. A selected bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need. “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a work essential to a complete understanding of the Modernist movement. The Norton Critical Edition presents Joyce’s novel impeccably edited by Hans Walter Gabler and a series of background and critical essays astutely chosen by John Paul Riquelme. It will enhance any high school, college, or graduate course in which it is taught.” ?Michael Patrick Gillespie, Florida International UniversityBy James Joyce. 2022
James Joyce&’s supremely innovative fictional autobiography is also, in the apt phrase of the biographer Richard Ellmann, nothing less than…
"the gestation of a soul." For as he describes the shabby, cloying, and sometimes terrifying Dublin upbringing of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, Joyce immerses the reader in his emerging consciousness, employing language that ranges from baby talk to hellfire sermon to a triumphant artist&’s manifesto. The result is a novel of immense boldness, eloquence, and energy, a work that inaugurated a literary revolution and has become a model for the portrayal of the self in our time. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.By James Joyce. 2021
This strikingly illustrated edition presents Joyce&’s epic novel in a new, more accessible light, while showcasing the incredible talent of…
a leading Spanish artist. The neo-figurative artist Eduardo Arroyo (1937–2018), regarded today as one of the greatest Spanish painters of his generation, dreamed of illustrating James Joyce&’s Ulysses. Although he began work on the project in 1989, it was never published during his lifetime: Stephen James Joyce, Joyce&’s grandson and the infamously protective executor of his estate, refused to allow it, arguing that his grandfather would never have wanted the novel illustrated. In fact, a limited run appeared in 1935 with lithographs by Henri Matisse, which reportedly infuriated Joyce when he realized that Matisse, not having actually read the book, had merely depicted scenes from Homer&’s Odyssey. Now available for the first time in English, this unique edition of the classic novel features three hundred images created by Arroyo—vibrant, eclectic drawings, paintings, and collages that reflect and amplify the energy of Joyce&’s writing.By James Joyce.
By James Joyce. 2011
James Joyce’s first novel, hailed as one of the greatest works of the twentieth century, about a young Irishman’s growth…
into artistic adulthood A semiautobiographical story mirroring Joyce’s own coming of age, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins when Stephen Dedalus is still a young boy. Living with his family in Dublin, Stephen’s first brush with the larger world occurs at boarding school, an unhappy time that he is eager to leave behind. Once home, however, life takes on a somber new tone as his father descends into alcoholism and his family’s finances dwindle. Joyce details young Stephen’s encounters with the Catholic Church, Irish politics, sexual experimentation, and coming-of-age in the twentieth century. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.By James Joyce. 2022
Un hito de la literatura inglesa moderna: el soberbio y pasional soliloquio de Molly Bloom. «[...] me gustaría que algún…
hombre cualquiera me cogiese alguna vez cuando él está aquí y me besase entre sus brazos no hay cosa como un beso largo y caliente que te baja por el alma casi te paraliza [...]» Cien años después de su publicación, las palabras de Molly Bloom, que cierran el gran canto épico del siglo XX que es el Ulises, siguen dejando a cualquier lector sin aliento. Sin signos de puntuación, a través del denominado «flujo de consciencia», Molly se convierte en una Penélope moderna que toma la palabra y zambulle al lector en sus pensamientos más profundos. Consciente de su complicada situación matrimonial con Leopold Bloom, tan solo le queda echar un vistazo atrás a la infancia, a sus hijos, a sus deseos más íntimos, a su radical mundanidad. Publicado por Sylvia Beach en la mítica librería parisina Shakespeare and Company en 1922, no cabe duda de que el Ulises, la obra magna de James Joyce, marcó un antes y un después en la modernidad literaria. Y no hay mejor manera de celebrar su centenario que leyendo el pasaje que encumbró al escritor irlandés. Sobre la obra y el autor:«Si tuviera que perderse todo lo que se llama literatura moderna y hubiera que salvar dos libros, esos dos libros que podríamos elegir en todo el mundo serían en primer término el Ulises y luego el Finnegans Wake, de Joyce».Jorge Luis Borges «Algo completamente nuevo. Ha logrado superar en intensidad a todos los novelistas de nuestra época.»William Butler Yeats «Ulises de Joyce es el eslabón entre los dos grandes mundos, el clásico y el del caos».George Steiner «Malditamente maravilloso».Ernest Hemingway «Había leído la novela con algo parecido a la veneración [...]. Lo leí con una dedicación queno he vuelto a tener nunca».Juan Gabriel Vásquez, El País «Un libro con el que todos estamos en deuda, y del que ninguno de nosotros puede escapar».T. S. Eliot «Cada página es maravillosa y compensa el esfuerzo».Joyce Carol Oates «Una obra de arte divina que vivirá para siempre».Vladimir Nabokov «Lo devoré en un verano con espasmos de asombro y de descubrimiento».Virginia Woolf «Navegué por primera vez en el Ulises con catorce años. Y digo navegar y no leer porque, como nos recuerda su título, el libro es como un océano; no lo lees, navegas a través de él».John Berger «Joyce está siempre en mi mente, lo llevo a todas partes conmigo. Construyó un universo a partir de un grano de arena: eso fue toda una revelación».Salman Rushdie «A veces pienso que preferiría no haberlo leído: me hace sentir inferior. Volver a mi obra tras un libro así es como si un eunuco quisiera tener voz debarítono».George OrwellBy James Joyce. 2015
Ulysses' takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, also known as Bloomsday, it sets the characters and incidents…
of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, and contrasts them with their lofty models. The book explores various areas of Dublin life, dwelling on its squalor and monotony. Nevertheless, the book is also an affectionately detailed study of the city. In Ulysses, Joyce employs stream of consciousness, parody, jokes, and virtually every other literary technique to present his characters. Many consider it the best novel of the twentieth century. It is powerfully written, a book for the ages.By Andreas Fischer. 2020
This book offers a comprehensive account of James Joyce and Zurich, one of the four cities (including Dublin, Trieste and Paris)…
in which he spent significant parts of his life. As a refugee during World War I, Joyce wrote a substantial part of Ulysses in Zurich and subsequently visited the city regularly during the 1930s. Finally, a refugee for the second time, he died there on 13 January 1941 and is buried in Fluntern Cemetery. This guide is conceived both as a book that may be read in its entirety or consulted selectively for specific information. An introduction and three chapters, Joyce in Zurich, Zurich in Joyce and Zurich after Joyce, are followed by sixty alphabetically ordered articles on people, places, institutions and events relevant to Joyce during his time in Zurich. Linked by cross-references and an index, they provide a rich, kaleidoscopic view of Joyce’s Zurich.By Joyce Carol Oates. 2008
Stories by National Book Award winner explore the lives of five great writers nearing the end of life. "Papa at…
Ketchum, 1961" centers on Hemingway's suicide plans. "Poe Posthumous: Or, the Light-House" imagines Poe as a lighthouse keeper in the South Pacific Ocean. Some strong language. 2008By James Joyce, Robert Scholes, Sean Latham, Mark Gaipa. 2015
James Joyce's Ulysses first appeared in print in the pages of an American avant-garde magazine, The Little Review, between 1918…
and 1920. The novel many consider to be the most important literary work of the twentieth century was, at the time, deemed obscene and scandalous, resulting in the eventual seizure of The Little Review and the placing of a legal ban on Joyce's masterwork that would not be lifted in the United States until 1933. For the first time, The Little Review "Ulysses" brings together the serial installments of Ulysses to create a new edition of the novel, enabling teachers, students, scholars, and general readers to see how one of the previous century's most daring and influential prose narratives evolved, and how it was initially introduced to an audience who recognized its radical potential to transform Western literature. This unique and essential publication also includes essays and illustrations designed to help readers understand the rich contexts in which Ulysses first appeared and trace the complex changes Joyce introduced after it was banned.By James Joyce, Seamus Deane, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Roman Muradov. 1992
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or…
my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning."James Joyce's supremely innovative fictional autobiography is also, in the apt phrase of the biographer Richard Ellmann, nothing less than "the gestation of a soul." For as he describes the shabby, cloying, and sometimes terrifying Dublin upbringing of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, Joyce immerses the reader in his emerging consciousness, employing language that ranges from baby talk to hellfire sermon to a triumphant artist's manifesto. The result is a novel of immense boldness, eloquence, and energy, a work that inaugurated a literary revolution and has become a model for the portrayal of the self in our time.The text of this edition has been newly edited by Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and is followed by a new afterword, chronology, and bibliography by Richard Brown.