Biography EssayFew writers have as secure a claim to be the major figure of the modernist period in literary history as James Joyce, a position that he prepared himself for with diligence and commitme...
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The fiction of the Irish author James Joyce (1882-1941) is characterized by experiments with language, symbolism, and use of the narrative techniques of interior monologue and stream of consciousness....
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James Joyce is a monument of modernism in literature. In the opening passage of his biography, James Joyce, Richard Ellmann aptly summarized the writer's impact on twentieth-century letters, "We are s...
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James Joyce is generally regarded as this century's greatest prose stylist in English. The basis of this judgment is the extraordinary achievement of but three novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Yo...
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Considered by many critics as the major writer of the twentieth century, James Joyce is nonetheless a minor poet both in the quantity and quality of his verse. The second of the ten children of John a...
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Few writers have as secure a claim to be the major figure of the modernist period in literary history as James Joyce, a position that he prepared himself for with diligence and commitment. During his ...
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Rather than forging radically new means for fiction, the novels of James Joyce--A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939)--as well as his single short-s...
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In the following review, Nightingale responds unfavorably to Harold Pinter's production of Exiles at the Mermaid Theater.
Last autumn, I was part of the critical consensus that almost unreserve...
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In the following essay, Kenner discusses the pseudo-liberation of Exiles.
Gabriel Conroy yearned for the snows. Exiles—an austere ungarnished play—inspects that pseudo-liberation; its Ri...
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In the following essay, Magalaner and Kain discuss reviews and varying opinions about Exiles.
Joyce's sole surviving drama, Exiles, was composed during the spring of 1914. Gorman considered it ...
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In the following essay, Fergusson examines the place of Exiles in Joyce's oeuvre and from an historical perspective.
Exiles was written during the spring of 1914, the year in which Dubliners wa...
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In the following essay, Aitken discusses the relationship between Exiles and Joyce's Ulysses.
James Joyce's play, Exiles, is clearly an additional exploration of the situation which conf...
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In the following essay, Tindall discusses the autobiographical nature of Joyce's works, with a focus on Exiles.
However simple its surface, Exiles is one of the more difficult of Joyce's...
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In the following essay, Harmon examines the main character in Exiles.
In James Joyce's Exiles it is easy to see Richard Rowan as a dominating figure. In scene after scene his probing, inquisato...
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In the following essay, Clark outlines the critical reception of Exiles.
The golden anniversary of the appearance of James Joyce's only surviving play,1 Exiles, is an occasion to note the relat...
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In the following essay, Tysdahl discusses the influence of Ibsen on Exiles.
In appearance Exiles is like one of Ibsen's realistic dramas from beginning to end. Joyce's stage-directions b...
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In the following essay, Benstock analyzes the structure of Exiles.
Between the completion of his Portrait and the inception of Ulysses James Joyce undertook to create the only extant drama of his lite...
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In the following essay, Brandabur discusses the themes of Exiles.
“When you are a recognized classic people will read it because you wrote it and be duly interested and duly instructed, …...
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In the following review, Clurman asserts that the lack of believability of Exiles supports the notion that Joyce was “no playwright.”
Extraordinarily intelligent, supremely self-consciou...
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In the following essay, Maher compares Exiles to Hamlet and examines the relationships of the characters in Exiles.
Joyce described Exiles as “three cat and mouse acts” (Exiles 123); he ...
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In the following essay, MacNicholas examines Exiles on its merits as a play, rather than in relation to Joyce's other works.
James Joyce wrote two prose plays: the first he dedicated to his own...
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In the following essay, Dombrowski and Pearson examine the problematic characters in Exiles.
Long considered an inferior work of largely curiosity value, Exiles has increasingly been recognized as a s...
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In the following essay, Brown and Knuth attempt to take a fresh view of Exiles as a literary piece.
Exiles and the Critics
This essay is born out of dissatisfaction with what the critics have said abo...
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In the following essay, MacNicholas outlines the stage production history of Exiles.
It is generally agreed, perhaps especially among Joyceans, that Exiles is a bad play, opaque to both reader and vie...
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In the following essay, Williams examines Exiles as dramatic fiction.
This is a reconstruction of the later part of a lecture, the earlier parts of which were based on the essay The ‘Exiles...
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In the following essay, Benstock discusses the characters and their relationships in Exiles.
The outbreak of the Great War in 1914 caught the Joyces in Austrian Trieste as British nationals, yet Joyce...
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In the following essay, Henke provides an analysis of Exiles and its characters.
Where does desire come from? From a mixture of difference and inequality. … It is inequality that triggers desir...
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In following review, Pound declares Exiles to be unstageable in the atmosphere of the contemporary theater.
Two months ago I set out to write an essay about a seventeenth century dramatist. As I had n...
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In the following review, the critic makes a plea for the production of Exiles.
Many men have written interesting books about their childhood and youth, and never succeeded again in the same degree. No...
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In the following review, originally published in 1918, MacCarthy enthusiastically discusses the published version of Exiles.
Exiles is a remarkable play. I am more sure of this than of having understo...
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In the following essay, four authors discuss their own opinions about Exiles.
By John Rodker
Again in this play Mr. Joyce exploits that part of mind merging on the subconscious. The drama is one of wi...
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In the following essay, Fergusson discusses Ibsen's influence on Joyce.
In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man we read of Stephen that “as he went by Baird's stonecutting work...
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In the following essay, Bandler discusses the conflict between artistic ideals and man's human nature in Exiles.
The note of exile recurs frequently in our age. It is the one constant among the...
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In the following excerpt, Farrell discusses how Joyce was influenced by Ibsen in writing Exiles.
It is commonly known that James Joyce, in his youth, was influenced by Ibsen's plays. Formally, ...
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James Joyce
James Joyce
James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce
