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'- What is your nation if I may ask, says the citizen. - Ireland,
says Bloom. I was born here. Ireland.' Ulysses, one of the greatest
novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on
modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a
single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold
Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each
episode has its own literary style, and the epic journey of
Odysseus is only one of many correspondencies that add layers of
meaning to the text. Today critical interest centres on the
authority of the text, and this edition, complete with an
invaluable introduction, notes, and appendices, republishes without
interference, the original 1922 text. Jeri Johnson's commentary
guides the reader through this highly allusive novel in an edition
acclaimed by scholars and general readers alike. This updated
edition includes new explanatory notes, a revised introduction, and
expanded bibliography. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Dubliners (Paperback)
James Joyce; Edited by Jeri Johnson
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The publication of James Joyce's Dubliners in 1914 was the result
of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to
remove swear words, real place names and much else. Although only
twenty-four when he signed his first publishing contract for the
book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would
"retard the course of civilization in Ireland." Joyce's aim was to
tell the truth-- to create a work of art that would reflect life in
Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism,
to reveal to the Irish their unromantic reality, which would lead
to the spiritual liberation of the country. Each of the fifteen
stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners-- a
death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled -
and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.
This edition is introduced and annotated by Jeri Johnson, who gives
a witty and informative insight into the context, meanings, and
reception of Joyce's work.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
'Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow
coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down
along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ' So
begins one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth
century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked
contemporary readers on its publication in 1916 who found its
treating of the minutiae of daily life indecorous, and its central
character unappealing. Was it art or was it filth? The novel charts
the intellectual, moral, and sexual development of Stephen Dedalus,
from his childhood listening to his father's stories through his
schooldays and adolescence to the brink of adulthood and
independence, and his awakening as an artist. Growing up in a
Catholic family in Dublin in the final years of the nineteenth
century, Stephen's consciousness is forged by Irish history and
politics, by Catholicism and culture, language and art. Stephen's
story mirrors that of Joyce himself, and the novel is both
startlingly realistic and brilliantly crafted. For this edition
Jeri Johnson, editor of the acclaimed Ulysses 1922 text, has
written an introduction and notes which together provide a
comprehensive and illuminating appreciation of Joyce's artistry.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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The Years (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Jeri Johnson; Edited by Jeri Johnson; Notes by Jeri Johnson
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'A brilliant fantasia of all Time's problems, age and youth, change
and permanence, truth and illusion' The Times Literary Supplement
The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies
and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the
bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of
the twentieth century, as their Victorian upbringing gives way to a
new world, where the rules of etiquette have shifted from the
drawing room to the air-raid shelter. Virginia Woolf's penultimate
novel is a celebration of the resilience of the individual amid
time, change, life, death and renewal. Edited with an Introduction
and Notes by Jeri Johnson
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The Psychology of Love (Paperback)
Sigmund Freud; Translated by Shaun Whiteside; Introduction by Jeri Johnson
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R625
R543
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Freud's landmark writings on love and sexuality?including the
famous case study of Dora? newly translated and in one volume for
the first time
This original collection brings together the most important
writings on the psychology of love by one of the great thinkers of
the twentieth century. Sigmund Freud's discussions of the ways in
which sexuality is always "psycho"sexuality?that there is no
sexuality without fantasy? have changed social, cultural, and
intellectual attitudes toward erotic life. Among the influential
pieces included here are ?On Female Sexuality, ? ?The Taboo of
Virginity, ? ?A Child Is Being Beaten, ? and the widely cited case
history of the eighteen-year-old Dora, making "The Psychology of
Love" essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Freud's
tremendous legacy.
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