Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Reflections on her own life are intertwined throughout CB
's journey, as she writes on her childhood experience of Catholicism, and her roles as mother, wife, lover, and Irish woman writer.
Byron, Catherine. Out of Step. Loxwood Stoneleigh.
passim
She deals trenchantly...
Education
Hélène Cixous
While working on her doctorate in 1963, HC
travelled to the United States to research James Joyce
's manuscripts for her doctoral thesis, and, in California,, she prepared a second thesis on Robinson Jeffers...
Textual Production
Hélène Cixous
HC
presented in 1968 the doctoral thesis which was translated into English by Sally Purcell
in June four years later as The Exile of James Joyce.
Intertextuality and Influence
Hélène Cixous
In a section called The Dawn of Phallocentrism, HC
presents block quotes from Freud
and Joyce
, formatted to look much like an interview with a third character she calls Jewoman. Freud and Joyce...
Intertextuality and Influence
Hélène Cixous
She begins the essay by noting that the second part of her title is an imitation of James Joyce
's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man because she also has chosen to...
Intertextuality and Influence
Hélène Cixous
Other texts that HC
considers here are Franz Kafka
's Before the Law (a segment of The Trial), James Joyce
's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and seven works...
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...
Education
Catherine Cookson
As a young adult CC
took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to...
Intertextuality and Influence
Marie Corelli
R. B. Kershner, Jr.
(a James Joyce
scholar) points out that Joyce read The Sorrows of Satan in 1905 and that the novel has a number of elements that [he] adapts to the form and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Victoria Cross
Sewell Stokes
, in a brief portrait of VC
in 1928, described her as one who had at one time been accused of poisoning the purity of British homes with her sordid writings ....
Intertextuality and Influence
Maureen Duffy
The book has three sections. The poems in Missa Humana correspond to different items in the Mass: from Kyrie (Lord, have mercy, a three-stanza poem which invokes the manmade suffering of children around the...
Intertextuality and Influence
George Egerton
Though Anita Moss in the DLB finds these stories less impressive than GE
's early Keynotes ones, she also writes that they embody some of Egerton's sharpest social criticism, that The Marriage of Mary Ascension...
Textual Production
T. S. Eliot
It was dedicated to Jean Verdenal
, who had recently been killed at the Dardanelles, with some lines from Dante
's Purgatorio. In addition to its title poem, The Love Song of J...
Reception
Anne Enright
AE
acknowledges that in this novel you can't escape Dubliners.
Bracken, Claire, and Susan Cahill, editors. “An Interview with Anne Enright, August 2009”. Anne Enright, Irish Academic Press, pp. 13-32.
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Though Joyce
is a special case, she says, she is always stealing from earlier writers' work, not in mischief or in reverence but...
Occupation
Ford Madox Ford
After months of negotiation, FMF
and Ezra Pound
persuaded patron John Quinn
to finance the new review. Quinn, who was angry with James Joyce
over issues involving manuscripts, demanded that Joyce should be excluded from...
