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Book Dubliners  Illustrated  the Faber Classics

Download or read book Dubliners Illustrated the Faber Classics written by James Joyce and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.

Book Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce

Download or read book Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce written by Gerry Smyth and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce: Joyces Noyces offers a fresh perspective on the Irish writer James Joyce’s much-noted obsession with music. This book provides an overview of a century-old critical tradition focused on Joyce and music, as well as six in-depth case studies which revisit material from the writer’s career in the light of new and emerging theories. Considering both Irish cultural history and the European art music tradition, the book combines approaches from cultural musicology, critical theory, sound studies and Irish studies. Chapters explore Joyce’s use of repetition, his response to literary Wagnerism, the role and status of music in the aesthetic and political debates of the fin de siècle, music and cultural nationalism, ubiquitous urban sound and ‘shanty aesthetics’. Gerry Smyth revitalizes Joyce’s work in relation to the ‘noisy’ world in which the author wrote (and his audience read) his work.

Book Fictions of Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Mühlheim
  • Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
  • Release : 2018-04-23
  • ISBN : 3772000398
  • Pages : 1222 pages

Download or read book Fictions of Home written by Martin Mühlheim and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to counter right-wing discourses of belonging. It discusses key theoretical concepts for the study of home, focusing in particular on Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic contributions. The book also maintains that postmodern celebrations of nomadism and exile tend to be incapable of providing an alternative to conservative, xenophobic appropriations of home. In detailed readings of one film and six novels, a view is developed according to which home, as a spatio-temporal imaginary, is rooted in our species being, and as such constitutes the inevitable starting point for any progressive politics.

Book Giacomo Joyce

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Joyce
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2019-10-15
  • ISBN : 0571356893
  • Pages : 46 pages

Download or read book Giacomo Joyce written by James Joyce and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction

Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction written by Dermot Bolger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-11-14 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects forty-six contemporary Irish short stories featuring contributions by notables including Mary Leland, William Trevor, Mary Dorcey, Patrick McCabe, and Brian Moore.

Book We Don t Know What We re Doing

Download or read book We Don t Know What We re Doing written by Thomas Morris and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dancing at Lughnasa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Friel
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780822213024
  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book Dancing at Lughnasa written by Brian Friel and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1993 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in l936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken

Book Hollywood Gothic

    Book Details:
  • Author : David J. Skal
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2004-10-18
  • ISBN : 1429998458
  • Pages : 637 pages

Download or read book Hollywood Gothic written by David J. Skal and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated edition of David J. Skal's Hollywood Gothic, "The ultimate book on Dracula" (Newsweek). The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. includes black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.

Book Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce  Illustrated

Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce Illustrated written by James Joyce and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 2459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish author James Joyce was a prominent figure of the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the twentieth century. His masterpiece ‘Ulysses’ is a landmark modernist work, in which the episodes of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, including stream of consciousness. Other important works are the seminal short story collection ‘Dubliners’ and the novels ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ and ‘Finnegans Wake’, noted for their experimental use of language and exploration of pioneering literary techniques. This eBook presents Joyce’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 7) * concise introductions to the novels and other texts * every novel, poetry collection and play has its own contents table to allow easy navigation * the rare unfinished novel STEPHEN HERO * many images related to Joyce and his works * special images of the original first editions, giving your eReader a flavour of the original texts * all of the short stories and poems * ‘Ulysses’ has special introductions to all eighteen episodes of the epic novel * includes the rare children’s short story THE CAT AND THE DEVIL * introductory chapters for each part of FINNEGANS WAKE, aiding understanding of this challenging text * includes the rare prose poem GIACOMO JOYCE, first time in digital print * special non-fiction section with essays, letters and newspaper articles * ordering of texts into chronological order * UPDATED with the rare prose fragments ‘The Cats of Copenhagen’ and ‘Finn’s Hotel’ CONTENTS The Novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ulysses Finnegans Wake Stephen Hero The Short Stories Dubliners The Cat and the Devil Other Prose Works Epiphanies Giacomo Joyce The Cats of Copenhagen Finn’s Hotel The Play Exiles The Poetry Collections Early Poetry Chamber Music Pomes Penyeach Later Poetry The Poetry List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction The Essays, Letters and Articles

Book Over Nine Waves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marie Heaney
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1995-07-13
  • ISBN : 057117518X
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Over Nine Waves written by Marie Heaney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-07-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Journalist Marie Heaney skillfully revives the glory of ancient Irish storytelling in this comprehensive volume from the great pre-Christian sequences to the more recent tales of the three patron saints Patrick, Brigid, and Colmcille."--Publisher's description.

Book The Garden Party  and Other Stories

Download or read book The Garden Party and Other Stories written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Playboy of the Western World

Download or read book The Playboy of the Western World written by John Millington Synge and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy in three acts by J.M. Synge, published and produced in 1907. It is a masterpiece of the Irish Literary Renaissance. This most famous of Synge's works fused the patois of ordinary Irish villagers with Synge's sophisticated rhetoric and enraged Irish playgoers with its satire of Irish braggadocio. The play follows the mercurial rise and fall of the character Christy Mahon, whose self-reported murder of his father earns him much admiration until his father shows up alive and in pursuit of his cowardly son. --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.

Book James Joyce and the Burden of Disease

Download or read book James Joyce and the Burden of Disease written by Kathleen Ferris and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce's near blindness, his peculiar gait, and his death from perforated ulcers are commonplace knowledge to most of his readers. But until now, most Joyce scholars have not recognized that these symptoms point to a diagnosis of syphilis. Kathleen Ferris traces Joyce's medical history as described in his correspondence, in the diaries of his brother Stanislaus, and in the memoirs of his acquaintances, to show that many of his symptoms match those of tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis which, untreated, eventually leads to paralysis. Combining literary analysis and medical detection, Ferris builds a convincing case that this dread disease is the subject of much of Joyce's autobiographical writing. Many of this characters, most notably Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, exhibit the same symptoms as their creator: stiffness of gait, digestive problems, hallucinations, and impaired vision. Ferris also demonstrates that the themes of sin, guilt, and retribution so prevalent in Joyce's works are almost certainly a consequence of his having contracted venereal disease as a young man while frequenting the brothels of Dublin and Paris. By tracing the images, puns, and metaphors in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and by demonstrating their relationship to Joyce's experiences, Ferris shows the extent to which, for Joyce, art did indeed mirror life.

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the impact of literature upon cities world-wide, and cities upon literature. It examines why the city matters so much to contemporary critical theory, and why it has inspired so many forms of writing which have attempted to deal with its challenges to think about it and to represent it. Gathering together 40 contributors who look at different modes of writing and film-making in throughout the world, this handbook asks how the modern city has engendered so much theoretical consideration, and looks at cities and their literature from China to Peru, from New York to Paris, from London to Kinshasa. It looks at some of the ways in which modern cities – whether capitals, shanty-towns, industrial or ‘rust-belt’ – have forced themselves on people’s ways of thinking and writing.

Book Pound Joyce  the Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce

Download or read book Pound Joyce the Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce written by Ezra Pound and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1967 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Michael Dillon, June 2009.

Book Serial Encounters

Download or read book Serial Encounters written by Clare Hutton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce's Ulysses was first published in New York in the Little Review between 1918 and 1920. What kind of reception did it have and how does the serial version of the text differ from the version most readers know, the iconic volume edition published in Paris in 1922 by Shakespeare and Company? Joyce prepared much of Ulysses for serial publication while resident in Zurich between 1915 and 1919. This original study, based on sustained archival research, goes behind the scenes in Zurich and New York in order to recover long forgotten facts that are pertinent to the writing, reception, and interpretation of Ulysses. The Little Review serialization of Ulysses proved controversial from the outset and was ultimately stopped before Joyce had completed the work. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice had taken successful legal action against the journal's editors, on the grounds that the final instalment of the thirteenth chapter of Ulysses was obscene. This triumph of the social purity movement had far reaching repercussions for Joyce's subsequent publishing history, and for his ongoing efforts with the composition of Ulysses. After chapters of contextual literary history (on the cultural world of the Little Review; the early production history of Ulysses; and the New York trial of 1921), the study moves to a consideration of the textual significance of the serialization. It breaks new ground in Joycean scholarship by paying critical attention to Ulysses as a serial text. The study concludes by examining the myriad ways in which Joyce revised and augmented Ulysses while resident in Paris; it shows how Joyce made Ulysses more sexually suggestive and overt, in explicit response to the work's legal reception in New York.

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.