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 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
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...
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.
This book attracted considerable critical attention. It was listed in the Daily Telegraph's Books of the Week and reviewed in the Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Scotsman, and the Irish...
Literary responses
Mary Butts
The first edition of Ashe of Rings was not extensively reviewed. Although an unimpressed reviewer for the Liverpool Courier characterised it as another bad case of Futurism (like the writing of James Joyce
and Dorothy Richardson
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Bryher
Though emotionally empty, the marriage was artistically productive. Most significantly, Bryher's introductions and family funds allowed McAlmon to establish his influential press, Contact Editions
. Thus, Bryher's money and social connections enabled the publication of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christine Brooke-Rose
This was her last novel published by Raleigh Trevelyan
of Michael Joseph
—who was, she believed, fired with a golden handshake for accepting it.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press.
128
Her choice of title was over-ruled because her publisher mistakenly...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christine Brooke-Rose
This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Muriel Box
MB
's writing career was fuelled by an early admiration for Shaw
, Joyce
, and especially Woolf
. A Room of One's Own had such an impact on her within a few years of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Eavan Boland
Building on The Journey and Other Poems and Outside History, EB
divides this book into three sections, Writing in a Time of Violence, Legends, and Anna Liffey, to deal respectively with...
Literary responses
Stella Benson
The Nation and Athenæum said that this novel was a little masterpiece.
Benson, Stella. Tobit Transplanted. Macmillan.
363
Naomi Mitchison
, who had not yet met SB
, was moved when she read this book to send a fan letter:...
Textual Production
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.
