James Joyce : : A Critical Guide / / Lee Spinks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Spinks, Lee,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748638369');James Joyce: A Critical Guide presents a full and comprehensive account of the major writing of the great modernist novelist James Joyce. Ranging right across Joyce's literary corpus from his earliest artistic beginnings to his mature prose masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, the book provides detailed textual analysis of each of his major works. It also provides an extended discussion of the biographical, historical, political and social contexts that inform Joyce's writing and a wide-ranging discussion of the multiple strands of Joyce criticism that have established themselves over the last eighty years. The book's combination of sustained close reading of individual texts and critical breadth makes it an ideal companion for both undergraduate students and the wider community of Joyce's readers. Key FeaturesAn extended discussion of Joyce's life, times and historical milieuDetailed close readings of each of Joyce's major literary worksA thorough critical introduction to the style, plot and characterisation of Finnegans WakeA comprehensive guide to the critical reception of Joyce's work"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Referencing -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Life and Contexts -- Chapter 2 Work -- Chapter 3 Criticism -- Bibliography -- Index