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.
In a literary introduction Gardam discusses the short story form and invokes James Joyce
's Dubliners.
Textual Production
Rumer Godden
Reading Gorman
's life of Joyce
, RG
felt herself oppressed again by the robustness of these men. I never long to be a man so much as in my writing; to be a man...
Friends, Associates
Augusta Gregory
James Joyce
wrote to AG
asking for financial help to enable him to leave Ireland and settle in Paris.
Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Joyce
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.
38
, No. 7, pp. 11-23.
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wrote a hostile review. The origins of Gregory's stories, he alleged, were feeble...
Friends, Associates
H. D.
In the 1920s, while HD and Bryher
were living rootlessly, sometimes in London, sometimes in Europe, HD's list of acquaintances grew to include Gertrude Stein
, Alice B. Toklas
, Ernest Hemingway
, James Joyce
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Ellen Harrison
Martha Carpentier
further discusses Harrison's impact on writers and their works in Ritual, Myth, and the Modernist Text: The Influence of Jane Ellen Harrison on Joyce
, Eliot, and Woolf (1998).
Residence
Seamus Heaney
In Dublin SH
bought a house by a famous strand, that is, close to Sandymount, which features in a famous early scene in James Joyce
's Ulysses.
On her marriage LI
travelled with her husband half-way round the world to the remote Ellice Islands, where he was stationed. (Then a less-developed part of the colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Storm Jameson
Throughout this work SJ
glosses over such events as marriage, divorce, and illness in favour of examining her psychology and behaviour, her struggle to balance motherhood and a public career, the value of creative writing...
Although JJ
says she is always reading contemporary young men and women writers coming out of Ireland today,
Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press.
67
in her short list of her most beloved books Ireland is just outnumbered by England and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jennifer Johnston
JJ
says, I don't plan my writing; I just sit down and listen to the voices. This makes it sound easy. It is not.
Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press.
67
Irish politics is the background to her work, as to...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Julia Kristeva
This is very largely a book about psychoanalytical issues: its first section, The Clinic, consists largely of case histories, whose interpretation is Lacan
ian. Here JK
defends the full-scale practice of psychoanalysis as opposed...
