San Antonio College Library

This critical compendium surveys the whole of Joyce's work, from his early writings as a student in Dublin to the labyrinths of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. It shows how Joyce grew beyond his early artistic revolt against middle-class Ireland to become a great comic writer, who even at his most experimental never ceased to draw his inspiration from the common life of ordinary men and women.--Adapted from publisher description.

This guide celebrates the daring, humor and playfulness of Joyce's work while engaging with and elucidating the most demanding aspects of his writing. By highlighting how his texts have been read by recent innovations in literary and cultural theory, this guide offers the reader a Joyce that is fresh, contemporary and relevant.

This highly original study explores Joyce's interest in sexual questions, and shows that, far from remaining aloof from the intellectual and social concerns of his time, Joyce was intimately engaged with them. Individual chapters consider Joyce's extensive reading on the question of marriage and its impact on his work, his responses to the new sexual ideology as expounded in the writings of Freud and Havelock Ellis, his concern with feminist issues...

This portrait-in-the-round of the greatest master of literature of the twentieth century, James Joyce, is the work of many pioneering critics whose familiarity with the man and whose insights into his art make their words uniquely knowledgeable, fresh, and compelling. "James Joyce: Two Decades of Criticism" has proved particularly revealing to the general reader, indispensable to the Joyce scholar, and a rich source book to the student of the development...