Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (Casebooks Series, 25)

Literature & Fiction

BEJA, MORRIS

History & Criticism

Red Globe Press

James Joyce: Dubliners and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Casebooks Series, 69)

British & Irish

This series of books offers accounts of the literary careers of widely read British and Irish authors. Volumes follow the outline of the writers' working lives tracing the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing. This book is about the Irish author James Joyce.

James Joyce: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Film & literature, an introduction

Longman

James Joyce: A Literary Life

This is a biography of Joyce for the general reader, using material about and by Joyce that has been available for the last two to three decades. James Joyce, arguably the most influential writer of any language in the 20th century, and certainly one of the major figures in world literature, led a fascinating life, and a triumphant and sad one, constantly battling with problems forced upon him as well as those created by him. The author argues that few artists have drawn so heavily on the fabric of their own lives in weaving their fiction. Morris Beja is the author of "Epiphany in the Modern Novel" and "Film and Literature".

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Gill Books

"Ulysses is always lauded as one of western culture's most important books. This collection of essays re-asserts the worth and vitality of Joyce's monumental text, not because it is challenging but because it speaks so powerfully to significant present-day issues: anti-Semitism, film, melodrama, fashion, photography, silenced women, advertising, and more."--Jennifer Fraser, author of Rite of Passage in the Narratives of Dante and Joyce
June 16, 2004, was the one hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday, the day that James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place. To celebrate the occasion, thousands took to the streets in Dublin, following in the footsteps of protagonist Leopold Bloom. The event also was marked by the Bloomsday 100 Symposium, where world-renowned scholars discussed Joyce's seminal work. This volume contains the best, most provocative readings of Ulysses presented at the conference.
The contributors to this volume urge a close engagement with the novel. They offer readings that focus variously on the materialist, historical, and political dimensions of Ulysses. The diversity of topics covered include nineteenth-century psychology, military history, Catholic theology, the influence of early film and music hall songs on Joyce, the post-Ulysses evolution of the one-day novel, and the challenge of discussing such a complex work amongst the sea of extant criticism.

Bloomsday 100: Essays on Ulysses (Florida James Joyce)

Fogarty, Anne

University Press of Florida

Transcripts of five major addresses and thirteen other essays reflecting the most recent Joyce scholarship as manifested at the 1986 symposium. Ranging widely over the body of Joyce's work, but with somewhat stronger emphasis on Ulysses and Finnegans wake, these articles apply varied analytical approaches such as the process indicated by verbs, modernist ideology, cinema, pedagogy, and ALP's final monologue. Appropriately, perhaps, there is here a great deal of language awareness, both fundamentally and as epiphenomena these writers delight in puns as well as incisive scholarship. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Coping With Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium

Ohio State Univ Pr

Morris Beja's concise yet thorough biography of James Joyce fills a void in Joycean studies by offering students and general readers a short, readable account of the great writer's life, concentrating on Joyce's sense of himself as an artist and on the ways in which he drew upon his life in weaving his fictions. James Joyce, arguably the most influential twentieth-century writer in any language, and certainly one of the major figures in world literature, led a fascinating life, triumphant and sad, constantly battling both self-created problems and those forced upon him. He began his life within an affluent family and saw it decline into poverty and debt. As a youth he was popular, yet found himself feeling increasingly isolated from his contemporaries. He gave himself to his art with fanatic devotion, but upon achieving the status of a notable force in literature, he had to endure agonies in his private life - including a daughter with severe mental illness and a son without a career or sense of direction. Beja demonstrates that the more we have learned about the smallest details of Joyce's life, the more we have come to see correspondences between his life and his art. Beja traces these correspondences throughout the canon and chronicles the ways in which Joyce's confidence in his art and his genius led to his triumph as a writer. This insightful biography will interest any students, general readers, and scholars seeking an accessible account of Joyce's life and work.

Contemporary

James Joyce: A Literary Life is a short biography of Joyce for the student and general reader. It is the first biography to appear for a number of years (and the first to use all the voluminous materials by and about Joyce which have become widely available during the last two or three decades) of a novelist whom many regard as the most influential writer of the twentieth century, and certainly one of the major figures in world literature.

JAMES JOYCE: A LITERARY LIFE

Ohio State University Press

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