James Joyce

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Standard Name: Joyce, James
Irish exile JJ , hailed by Yeats as a new kind of novelist even before his first novel was published, became one of the leading practitioners of modernism. As well as poems, a play, and a volume of short stories, he produced three important novels, from the last of which he put out several separate sections long before the whole appeared. Joyce encountered obstacles to publishing almost all his books, raised by censors both official and self-appointed. Without the tireless patronage of Harriet Shaw Weaver and Sylvia Beach , his last two books might never have been published at all.

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Literary responses Claire Keegan
The book was widely acclaimed soon after it was published, receiving the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Martin Healy Award, and the William Trevor Prize. The Los Angeles Times also called it the Best...
Literary responses Dorothy Richardson
Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce , focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in...
Literary responses Mary Butts
This book attracted considerable critical attention. It was listed in the Daily Telegraph's Books of the Week and reviewed in the Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Scotsman, and the Irish...
Literary responses Mary Lavin
Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly in October 1941, the story At Sallygap has been likened to the works of James Joyce and Sean O'Casey .
Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne.
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Kelly, Angeline Agnes. Mary Lavin, Quiet Rebel. Wolfhound Press, http://PS 3523 A946 Z7 K29 1980 HSS.
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Literary responses Mary Butts
The first edition of Ashe of Rings was not extensively reviewed. Although an unimpressed reviewer for the Liverpool Courier characterised it as another bad case of Futurism (like the writing of James Joyce and Dorothy Richardson
Literary responses Mary Lavin
This volume brought ML critical acclaim. R. J. Thompson read it as establishing her position as one of the most artful and perceptive masters of the story form in our day.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
In Ireland, wrote the...
Literary responses Jeanette Winterson
This novel received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
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Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
Reviewers in Cosmopolitan, the London Review of Books, The Times, the Financial Times...
Literary responses Marcel Proust
The novel at once gave rise to an intellectual cult, and not among the French. Woolf wished she could write like Proust, though Joyce is reported as seeing no special talent in him.
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
16 November 2010
Literary responses Augusta Gregory
Joyce (who with Padraic Pearseneeded to throw stones at the Irish Literary Revival and Irish Literary Theatre as anti-national,
Tóibín, Colm. “After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, pp. 11-23.
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wrote a hostile review. The origins of Gregory's stories, he alleged, were feeble...
Literary responses Ann Quin
Berg earned AQ two major awards: the Harkness Fellowship, given to the most promising Commonwealth artist under thirty years, and the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship from the University of New Mexico .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Giles Gordon
Literary responses Stella Benson
The Nation and Athenæum said that this novel was a little masterpiece.
Benson, Stella. Tobit Transplanted. Macmillan.
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Naomi Mitchison , who had not yet met SB , was moved when she read this book to send a fan letter:...
Literary responses Jean Rhys
Critically, Rhys has been lauded as a modernist writer, a feminist writer, and, more recently, a postcolonial, Caribbean, or Creole writer. Biographer Carole Angier suggests that her preoccupation with exile was common in her time...
Literary responses Anna Livia
In American Book Review, John Jacob commented that Minimax was a novel James Joyce would have shown an interest in . . . [Anna Livia] has infused her writing with . . . inventiveness...
Literary responses Christina Stead
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer (the same who had hailed Stead the short-story writer as an impressive new talent) ranked her novel far lower. Even though he found here curiosity, wit, delight in words, and...
Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
During the early part of ICB 's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger...

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