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.
Marsden and Weaver also developed other significant literary and social relationships through each other. As editor of The Egoist, Marsden was chiefly responsible for the decision to serialize Joyce
's A Portrait of the...
Friends, Associates
Harriet Shaw Weaver
Before meeting James Joyce
but after becoming his patron, HSW
envisaged him as noble and ascetic. She was upset when in 1921 Wyndham Lewis
depicted Joyce to her as a drunken spendthrift. Joyce countered these...
During the 1920s DM
's primary focus was her writing, which she continued mainly in isolation and under much mental and physical stress. However, she was assisted in this by Harriet Shaw Weaver
and Sylvia Beach
Health
Sylvia Beach
SB
had suffered from health problems all her life, but as the responsibilities of owning a bookstore and publishing Ulysses grew, her migraines increased in length and intensity. The headaches began in her pre-teen years...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Gardam
In a literary introduction Gardam discusses the short story form and invokes James Joyce
's Dubliners.
Intertextuality and Influence
Catherine Byron
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...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Edith Wharton
These books follow the progress of a budding male author, Vance Weston, who seems unable to achieve his career aspirations either amid the cutthroat New York literary scene or the more relaxed, bohemian one of...
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
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).
Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago.
133
She set them in Edwardian Mayfair: Burkhart compares her depiction of London to that of Dublin by Joyce
.
Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne.
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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
Samuel Beckett
He felt that the second world war had transformed his relation to writing, driving him inward for his subject-matter, away from the Joyce
an play of meaning towards the dearth or even the failure of...
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...