James Joyce

-
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.

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Reception Betty Miller
St John Ervine responded unsympathetically to news of this novel's existence, suggesting that the world had enough novelists already. Aren't there far too many women novelists and not enough good cooks?
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
ix
Having read it...
Reception Dorothy Richardson
DR read and, generally, appreciated the work of these authors. She knew of Joyce at least by June 1919, when her own Interim began to be seralized in the Little Review (against the advice of...
Reception Dorothy Richardson
Woolf's private and published statements on Richardson's texts are mixed. In January 1920, she mused in her diary about the danger [of] the damned egotistical self; which ruins Joyce and Richardson to my mind: is...
Residence Bryher
Shari Benstock explains that the very wealthy Bryher had been advised to move to Switzerland for tax purposes. But Benstock also suggests that Bryher's Swiss home became a creative refuge for her and H. D...
Residence Harriet Shaw Weaver
In May 1934, faulty wiring in the flat below hers caused an electrical fire in the building. HSW 's first editions were protected by her glass-fronted bookcase, but other precious books and mementoes such as...
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.
Corcoran, Neil. “Seamus Heaney obituary”. theguardian.com.
Residence Edna O'Brien
Her cluttered writing room has an arbutus desk, books (many of them signed gifts from their authors), candles, paintings, the faded and fraying tapesty carpet, and images of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett presiding at...
Textual Features Sylvia Beach
The memoir reads like a homage to the men and women who enriched her life personally, and the world of letters generally. SB 's generosity and goodwill made her censor much about her difficulties with...
Textual Features Sylvia Beach
Reviewing the collection, Kathryn Hughes found SB 's usual style characterised by a kind of polite chirpiness, with even faintly slangy expressions—jazzed up, my stars, corking—marked by scare quotes, and Beach's...
Textual Features Dodie Smith
The book is narrated in the first person by seventeen-year-old Cassandra, a budding writer. As she explains, I am writing this journal partly to practise my newly acquired speed-writing and partly to teach myself how...
Textual Features Samuel Beckett
The publisher's blurb, talking about a new independent spirit at work and humour, the last weapon against despair, was remarkably percipient.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
13
Like Beckett's other early prose works in English, these stories are deeply Joycean
Textual Features Caroline Norton
The Rebel, spoken by an imprisoned Irish harper who weep[s,] to think upon my country's chain, suggests both a sympathy with the cause of Ireland and the influence of CN 's friend Thomas Moore
Textual Features Diana Athill
Many aspects of this story are clearly close to the way DA saw her own life, though characters are different (the protagonists' parents, for instance, are not her own). Sixteen-year-old Meg Bailey is shy, easily...
Textual Features Seamus Heaney
The title poem, wrote a critic some years later, wrestled towards a vision of poetic transcendence in the person of James Joyce ,
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4601 (7 June 1991): 28
while the volume as a whole reflects...
Textual Features Edna O'Brien
It is a free-association monologue written in the second person, about which EOB has said, I hope it reads like a little trip to a lucid hallucination.
Eckley, Grace. Edna O’Brien. Bucknell University Press.
35
Grace Eckley draws similarities between O'Brien's narrative...

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.