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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Dorothy Richardson
The first reviewer, in the Sunday Observer, found DR 's narrative strategy extraordinary, but remarkably clear. He noted that her leaving the reader without explanations or apologies was not in the least troubling or...
Publishing Dorothy Richardson
Margaret Anderson , co-publisher with Jane Heap of the Little Review, asked to serialise DR 's forthcoming novel (Interim) because she saw Richardson as an experimental writer worthy of publication. Richardson was...
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...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
An instalment of DR 's novel Interim was suppressed when the post office seized an issue of the Little Review because it also contained an episode of James Joyce 's Ulysses that was deemed to be obscene.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
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Friends, Associates Laura Riding
Graves and Riding were touchy as friends, between their sense of literary mission (they saw Graves's biography of T. E. Lawrence as a somewhat demeaning potboiler, not part of his real work at all) and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Laura Riding
The volume was, says Elizabeth Friedmann , largely a response to the ideas of Wyndham Lewis .
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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LR sets out to free the poet from the restrictions imposed by the synthetic or collective notion...
Intertextuality and Influence Carol Rumens
Its tributes to earlier women poets are grounded in Portrait of the Poet as a Little Girl (a belated, oblique answer to James Joyce ), which concludes on the patrilineal prize / which she, disarmed...
Education Ali Smith
After completing her studies at Aberdeen, Smith began working towards a doctorate at Newnham College, Cambridge (still a women-only body). Continuing her work on the area of her MLitt, she determined to focus on the...
Textual Features Dodie Smith
The book is narrated in the first person by seventeen-year-old Cassandra, a budding writer. As she explains, I am writing this journal partly to practise my newly acquired speed-writing and partly to teach myself how...
politics Edith Somerville
Perhaps with Ethel Smyth 's encouragement, ES signed a letter to the newspapers protesting at the mutilation of Joyce 's Ulysses by its American publishers.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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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 Christina Stead
Stead's biographer Hazel Rowley observes that reviewers were nonplussed.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg.
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Harold Strauss in the New York Times Book Review (who found himself reminded of James Joyce ) felt forced to praise . ....
Textual Production Gertrude Stein
Carl Van Vechten edited and selected the texts to provide a sample of the various styles and periods of GS 's writings. He puts her in the same category as Joyce , Eliot , and...
Cultural formation John Millington Synge
He first met William Butler Yeats , one of two major Irish literary contemporaries who also rejected religion in their youth, in 1896. (The other scoffer at religion, James Joyce , he met only once...

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