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This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Gabler's acclaimed
text and is accompanied by his introduction and textual notes. John
Paul Riquelme provides detailed explanatory annotations.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" is thematically organized to provide
readers with a clear picture of the novel's historical, cultural,
and literary inspirations. Topics include "Political Nationalism:
Irish History, 1798-1916," "The Irish Literary and Cultural
Revival," "Religion," and "Aesthetic Backgrounds." "Criticism"
begins with John Paul Riquelme's helpful essay on the novel's
structural form and follows with twelve diverse interpretations by,
among others, Kenneth Burke, Umberto Eco, Hugh Kenner, Maud
Ellmann, Joseph Valente, and Marian Eide. A Selected Bibliography
is also included.
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Ulysses (Paperback)
James Joyce; Introduction by Cedric Watts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of
English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing
masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall
Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during
which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially
deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel,
revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a
work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway.
Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent,
resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the
reader a life-changing experience.
Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce
made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us
truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses,
corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians,
struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic
brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or
cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an
international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country by
seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety
in Irish literature.
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Finnegans Wake (Paperback, UK ed.)
James Joyce; Introduction by Len Platt; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia
Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the
book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work,
it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but,
rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. This
'language' is based on English vocabulary and syntax but, at the
same time, self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine
with an astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning.
Announcing a 'revolution of the word', this astonishing book
amounts to a powerfully resonant cultural critique - a unique kind
of miscommunication which, far from stabilizing the world in
meaning, constructs a universe radically unfixed by a wild
diversity of possibilities and potentials. It also remains the most
hilarious, 'obscene', book of innuendos ever to be imagined.
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Dubliners (Paperback, New edition)
James Joyce; Introduction by Laurence Davies; Notes by Laurence Davies; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New
Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native
city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners
show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous
hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur
theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of
domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest
or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an
international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country by
seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety
in Irish literature.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger,
University of Cardiff. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's
Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the
understanding of the later work. This novel is a highly
autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who
reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can
become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying
effects of the religion, politics and essential bigotry of his
background in late 19th century Ireland. Written with a light
touch, this is perhaps the most accessible of Joyce's works.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the
millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy
of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.' Autobiographical
in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood
explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as he
struggles to overcome the ingrained Catholic consciousness of his
childhood - a family life governed by Irish history, religion and
politics. Realistic and innovative in its approach, the style of
writing proved controversial upon publication in 1916 and the
character of Stephen on a quest for his identity did not appeal to
readers.However, Joyce expertly encapsulates the development of
individual consciousness and the role of the artist in society in
what is considered one of his greatest works.
'- 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.
Exam board: Cambridge Assessment International Education Level
& Subject: A Level English Literature First teaching: September
2020 First examination: June 2023
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Dubliners (Paperback)
James Joyce
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'One by one they were all becoming shades.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some
passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.' Revealing the
truths and realities about Irish society in the early 20th century,
Joyce's Dubliners challenged the prevailing image of Dublin at the
time. A group portrait made up of 15 short stories about the
inhabitants of Joyce's native city, he offers a subtle critique of
his own town, imbuing the text with an underlying tone of tragedy.
Through his various characters he displays the complicated
relationships, hardships and mundane details of everyday life and
the desire for escape - a yearning that so closely mirrored his own
experiences.
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love?
The manuscript of 'Giacomo Joyce', written in James Joyce's best handwriting and folded between the covers of a school notebook, was discovered in Trieste. Most likely written in 1914, some of it served as a rehearsal for passages in Ulysses. Had Joyce meant to pillage it or publish it? Either way, this fragmented evocation of unrequited desire is, in the words of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann, a work of 'small, fragile, enduring perfection'.
With a new introduction by Colm Tóibín.
Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
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Ulysses (Hardcover)
James Joyce; Introduction by Bob Joyce; Illustrated by Emma Byrne
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The unique Dublin Illustrated Edition, endorsed by The James Joyce
Centre, meticulously recreates the 1922 text, and has been
published to celebrate the Global Bloomsday Gathering, a live
online reading of Ulysses which starts on 15 June 2013 at the James
Joyce centre. Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom
through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses'
stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and
experimental prose-full of puns, parodies, and allusions, as well
as its rich characterisations and broad humour, made the book a
highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon. In 1998, the
Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best
English-language novels of the 20th century.
First published in 1993. The seminal invention for James Joyce's A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was the narrative essay A
Portrait of the Artist'. This reprinting also includes an
introduction of its origin to publication in 1914 as a serialised
narrative in 'The Egoist' journal.
Through what Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous
meanness," the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of
Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this Norton
Critical Edition is based on renowned Joyce scholar Hans Walter
Gabler s edited text and includes his editorial notes and the
introduction to his scholarly edition, which details and discusses
Dubliners complicated publication history. "Contexts" offers a rich
collection of materials that bring the stories and the Irish
capital to life for twenty-first century readers, including
photographs, newspaper articles and advertising, early versions of
two of the stories, and a satirical poem by Joyce about his
publication woes. "Criticism" brings together eight illuminating
essays on the most frequently taught stories in Dubliners "Araby,"
"Eveline," "After the Race," "The Boarding House," "Counterpoints,"
"A Painful Case," and "The Dead." Contributors include David G.
Wright, Heyward Ehrlich, Margot Norris, James Fairhall, Fritz Senn,
Morris Beja, Roberta Jackson, and Vincent J. Cheng."
First published in 1993. The seminal invention for James Joyce's A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was the narrative essay A
Portrait of the Artist'. This reprinting also includes an
introduction of its origin to publication in 1914 as a serialised
narrative in 'The Egoist' journal.
Masterpiece of semiautobiographical fiction reveals a powerful portrait of the coming of age of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity and character. Telling portrayals of an Irish upbringing and schooling, the Catholic Church and its priesthood, Parnell and Irish politics, sexual experimentation and its aftermath, and problems with art and morality.
'It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it
includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The
question is not 'what is a novel?', but what can a novel be?
Ulysses is the answer' Patrick McGuinness from his preface to
Ulysses: The Restored Text Initially rejected by several printers
in Dublin and London for containing 'obscene' content, Ulysses was
first published in book form in a limited-edition printing of 1000
copies by Shakespeare and Company in Paris in 1922. A subsequent
printing was impounded by US customs and for a period the novel was
famed for its notoriety rather than its literary achievement. Like
its author, Ulysses exists in a complicated push-pull relationship
with its language - English - and its setting - Ireland. Joyce
returns to the themes that had preoccupied him in previous works,
including nationalism and empire, religion, identity and sex in a
novel which gloriously brings Dublin on June 16th 1904 to the page.
This edition of Ulysses: The Restored Text includes the revisions
that Joyce made to the novel during his lifetime.
The complete text of James Joyce's dream masterpiece, one of the
great works of twentieth-century literature. This copyright edition
incorporates Joyce's own alterations and corrections to the first
printing in 1939. 'Here words are not the polite contortions of
twentieth-century printer's ink. They are alive. They elbow their
way on to the page, and glow and blaze and fade and disappear.'
Samuel Beckett
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Ulysses (Paperback)
James Joyce; Edited by Hans Walter Gabler Gabler; Introduction by Anne Enright
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Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpiece The authoritative Hans
Walter Gabler text; with a new introduction by Anne Enright. Set
entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom
and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in
Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of
extraordinary imaginative richness and depth. Unique in the history
of literature, Ulysses is one of the most important and enjoyable
works of the twentieth century. The survivor of countless
controversies, censorships and even claims of blasphemy, this
centenary edition of Ulysses comes packaged in a boldly designed
new package, befitting of its status as one of the most notorious
and influential novels ever written. 'The greatest novel of the
century' Anthony Burgess Ulysses has had a profound influence on
modern fiction... Unforgettable' Guardian 'A work of high genius'
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