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.
She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included...
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Edna O'Brien
This text consists of a long soliloquy by Mary Hooligan, a middle-aged woman who speaks from her four-poster bed in a London flat. Her self-reliance and immersion in memory, both positve and negative, help her...
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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...
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Sylvia Beach
Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce
, SB
did much of the editorial work and designed the cover.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
SB
published Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, a collection of essays on Joyce
's Finnegans Wake.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
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Harriet Shaw Weaver
From her experiences with the problems of publishing James Joyce
, HSW
concludes, we have in working practice in England a printer's censorship much more drastic than that of the official censorship itself.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
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The...
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Edna O'Brien
In June 2013 EOB
published with the Greville Press
of Warwick a booklet entitled Joyce
's Women.
This journal had an auspicious beginning: Marsden announced in January that it would serialize James Joyce
's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Marsden played an important role in Joyce's early...
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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...
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Samuel Beckett
A critical essay on James Joyce
, included in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, was SB
's first adult published work.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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Q. D. Leavis
This suggests that QDL
had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge
(through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...
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Ezra Pound
In 1917, EP
told Joyce
that he had begun an endless poem, of no known category . . . all about everything.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
For the next fifty-four years, Pound worked on his monumental epic poem, Cantos...
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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.
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Sally Purcell
SP
published a prose translation from Hélène Cixous
: The Exile of James Joyce.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, pp. 19-24.
