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.
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...
Literary responses
Mary Lavin
Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly in October 1941, the story At Sallygap has been likened to the works of James Joyce
and Sean O'Casey
.
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.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
In Ireland, wrote the...
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...
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
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...
Leisure and Society
Jennifer Johnston
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...
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...
Travel
Lucille Iremonger
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...
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.
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).
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
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.
157
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.