Introducing Joyce (Paperback)

David Norris

ISBN 10: 1848313519 / ISBN 13: 9781848313514

Editore: Icon Books, Duxford, 2012

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Paperback. One of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century, Joyce's Ulysses is often described as the most difficult novel in the English language. He ranks alongside such figures as Picasso, Schoenberg and Stravinsky as one of the great pioneers of modernism. But a myth of Joyce's difficulty has taken root, discouraging many readers. This is a great pity, because his writings are deeply human, enormously comic, and compelling reading. Although Joyce spent much of his life in self-imposed exile, all of his writings are obsessively and microscopically focused on Dublin's fair city. David Norris, Irish Senator, writer and Trinity College don, provides an introductory map to the labyrinth of Joyce's visionary Dublin. He takes us step by step from the early stories Dubliners, and A portrait of the artist as a young man, into the sprawling comic universe of Ulysses, and finally to the mythic dreamworld of Finnegans Wake. Compact guide to the great modernist writer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Introducing Joyce (Paperback)
• Editore: Icon Books, Duxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1848313519
• ISBN 13: 9781848313514
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Disegnatore: Flint, Carl
• Edizione: quarta edizione
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

James Joyce is one of the most famous—and controversial—writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers from works such as Ulysses, but David Norris explores his life and work in this engaging and intellectually rigorous introduction.

Informazioni sull?autore

David Norris is an Irish civil rights campaigner, scholar, and independent politician. He is a former university lecturer.