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Occasional, critical and political writing / James Joyce ; edited with an introduction and notes by Kevin Barry ; translations from the Italian by Conor Deane.

By: Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Contributor(s): Barry, Kevin, 1950- | Deane, Conor.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Oxford world's classics.Publisher: Oxford : O.U.P., 2000Description: 1360 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0192833537.Subject(s): Literature -- History and criticismDDC classification: 823.912
Contents:
Occasional, Critical and Political Writing -- Trust not appearances -- Subjugation -- The Study of Languages -- Royal Hibernian Academy 'Ecce Homo' -- Drama and Life -- Ibsen's New Drama -- The Day of the Rabblement -- James Clarence Mangan (1902) -- An Irish Poet -- George Meredith -- Today and tomorrow in Ireland -- A Sauve Philosophy -- An effort at Precision in Thinking -- Colonial Verses -- Catilina -- The Soul of Ireland -- The Motor Derby -- Aristotle on Education -- A Ne'er-Do-Weel -- New Fiction -- A Peep into History -- A French Religious Novel -- Unequal Verse -- Mr Arnold Grave's New Work -- A Neglected Poet -- Mr Mason's Novels -- The Bruno Philosophy -- Humanism -- Shakespeare explained -- Borlase and Son -- Empire-Building -- Aesthetics -- Ireland: Island of Saints and Sages -- James Clarence Mangan (1907) -- The Irish Literary Renaissance -- Fenianism: The last Fenian -- Home Rule comes of age -- Ireland at the Bar -- Oscar Wilde: The Poet of 'Salome' -- The battle between Bernard Shaw and the Censor: 'The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet' -- The Home Rule Comet -- A Curious History -- Realism and Idealism in English Literature (Daniel Defoe - William Blake) -- The Centenary of Charles Dickens -- The Universal Literary Influence of the Renaissance -- The Shade of Parnell -- The City of the Tribes: Italian Memories in an Irish Port -- The Mirage of the Fisherman of Aran: England's Safety Valve in Case of War -- Politics and Cattle Disease -- Programme Notes for the English Players -- From a Banned Writer to a Banned Singer -- On the moral right of authors.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism' James Joyce's non-fictional writings address diverse issues: aesthetics, the functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history, England's literature and empire. This collection includes newspaper articles, reviews, lectures, and propagandizing essays that are consciously public, direct, and communicative. It covers forty years of Joyce's life and maps important changes in his opinions about politics, especially Irish politics, about the relationship of literature to history, and about writers who remained important to him such as Mangan, Blake, Defoe, Ibsen, Wilde, and Shaw. These pieces also clarify and illuminate the transformations in Joyce's fiction, from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to the first drafts of Ulysses. Gathering together more than fifty essays, several of which have never been available in an English edition, this volume is the most complete and the most helpfully annotated collection.

Bibliography: (pages xxxvii-xlii) and index.

Occasional, Critical and Political Writing -- Trust not appearances -- Subjugation -- The Study of Languages -- Royal Hibernian Academy 'Ecce Homo' -- Drama and Life -- Ibsen's New Drama -- The Day of the Rabblement -- James Clarence Mangan (1902) -- An Irish Poet -- George Meredith -- Today and tomorrow in Ireland -- A Sauve Philosophy -- An effort at Precision in Thinking -- Colonial Verses -- Catilina -- The Soul of Ireland -- The Motor Derby -- Aristotle on Education -- A Ne'er-Do-Weel -- New Fiction -- A Peep into History -- A French Religious Novel -- Unequal Verse -- Mr Arnold Grave's New Work -- A Neglected Poet -- Mr Mason's Novels -- The Bruno Philosophy -- Humanism -- Shakespeare explained -- Borlase and Son -- Empire-Building -- Aesthetics -- Ireland: Island of Saints and Sages -- James Clarence Mangan (1907) -- The Irish Literary Renaissance -- Fenianism: The last Fenian -- Home Rule comes of age -- Ireland at the Bar -- Oscar Wilde: The Poet of 'Salome' -- The battle between Bernard Shaw and the Censor: 'The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet' -- The Home Rule Comet -- A Curious History -- Realism and Idealism in English Literature (Daniel Defoe - William Blake) -- The Centenary of Charles Dickens -- The Universal Literary Influence of the Renaissance -- The Shade of Parnell -- The City of the Tribes: Italian Memories in an Irish Port -- The Mirage of the Fisherman of Aran: England's Safety Valve in Case of War -- Politics and Cattle Disease -- Programme Notes for the English Players -- From a Banned Writer to a Banned Singer -- On the moral right of authors.

Includes some selections translated from Italian.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland, into a large Catholic family. Joyce was a very good pupil, studying poetics, languages, and philosophy at Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, and the Royal University in Dublin.

Joyce taught school in Dalkey, Ireland, before marrying in 1904. Joyce lived in Zurich and Triest, teaching languages at Berlitz schools, and then settled in Paris in 1920 where he figured prominently in the Parisian literary scene, as witnessed by Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.

Joyce's collection of fine short stories, Dubliners, was published in 1914, to critical acclaim. Joyce's major works include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Stephen Hero. Ulysses, published in 1922, is considered one of the greatest English novels of the 20th century. The book simply chronicles one day in the fictional life of Leopold Bloom, but it introduces stream of consciousness as a literary method and broaches many subjects controversial to its day. As avant-garde as Ulysses was, Finnegans Wake is even more challenging to the reader as an important modernist work. Joyce died just two years after its publication, in 1941.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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