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 this essay, Eide explores Joyce's “fluidity of language” in Finnegans Wake and asserts that the book “performs an exploration of the interactive relationship between opp...
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In the following interview, Cage explains his use of mesostics (aligning letters within a text to spell out words vertically), clarifies the formulas for picking the words and letters in his mesostics...
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A Stanford University professor who sued James Joyce's estate for the right to quote excerpts from "Finnegans Wake" and letters between the author and his daughter will be able to use the material ...
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A Stanford University professor who sued James Joyce's estate for the right to quote excerpts from "Finnegans Wake" and letters between the author and his daughter will be able to use the material ...
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A Stanford University professor who sued James Joyce's estate for the right to quote excerpts from "Finnegans Wake" and letters between the author and his daughter will be able to use the material ...
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Will Ferrell has received the James Joyce award — but concedes he's no literary expert."As I perused my leatherbound volumes of `Ulysses,' `Finnegans Wake,' `Dubliners,' `Portrait of the Arti...
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Darryl Zanuck loved the story but hated the choice of writer-director-an "arrogant bastard" with "four flops" to his name already, as he blustered to the producer, Sol C. Siegel. Zanuck wanted Erns...
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