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
Occupation Sylvia Beach
Harassed by customers and friends for their copies, SB withdrew the window-copy until shipments arrived from the publisher in Dijon. She and her assistant mailed out the books to subscribers in the United States...
Occupation Sylvia Beach
Joyce wanted a simple, cheap-looking booklet, so Herbert Clarke produced something that looked, even Clarke himself thought, regrettably pharmaceutical.
qtd. in
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
174
Clarke persuaded Beach to put out a better version with boards, but this would...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
In August 1921, while she waited for Ulysses' appearance, HSW obtained the rights to all of Joyce 's publications: Chamber Music from Elkin Mathews , and Dubliners and Exiles from Grant Richards . Joyce...
Occupation Sylvia Beach
Joyce was launching a lawsuit against Samuel Roth at this time for illegally pirating Ulysses in the United States. He stated in a deposition against Roth that the book was not his property but...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
Ulysses grossed £2,608 and netted £1,637. Joyce received royalties of £1,636.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
234, 462
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
The relevant clause in his will states: I leave all my manuscripts to Harriet Shaw Weaver and direct that she have sole decision in all literary matters relating to my writings published and unpublished.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
305
Occupation Dora Marsden
In January 1916 Weaver went ahead with the decision to publish Joyce 's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man after gaining Marsden's approval (though she would have continued independently if approval had...
Occupation Ezra Pound
Around this time, EP began corresponding with James Joyce and helped obtain A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for serialization in 1914.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Occupation Sylvia Beach
SB offered to publish James Joyce 's Ulysses, a proposition he gratefully accepted.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
47
Material Conditions of Writing Edna O'Brien
When a revival of Joyce 's play, Exiles, was mounted in London in summer 2006, EOB contributed to the Guardian a spirited account of the play's themes and more particularly of its composition and...
Literary responses Christine Brooke-Rose
Brian McHale says that CBR 's representations here of London's homeless are freshly observed as if firsthand, and that the novel is in the lineage of the great twentieth-century city novels—a London Wandering Rocks...
Literary responses Mary Lavin
Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly in October 1941, the storyAt Sallygap has been likened to the works of James Joyce and Sean O'Casey .
Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne, 1978.
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Kelly, Angeline Agnes. Mary Lavin, Quiet Rebel. Wolfhound Press, 1980, http://PS 3523 A946 Z7 K29 1980 HSS.
73, 156, 191
Literary responses Alice Oswald
David Wheatley responded to this poem by establishing it as a landmark in the broadest literary landscape. He compared Oswald in some detail with Joyce (another writer much possessed by water). He rejoiced at her...
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.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
In Ireland, wrote the...
Literary responses Dorothy Richardson
Pilgrimage and its author have been grouped with various other writers and literary methods, particularly with Virginia Woolf , James Joyce , and Marcel Proust , who set out to explore and record linked elements...

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