James Joyce: A Literary Life
β Scribed by Morris Beja (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 163
- Series
- Macmillan Literary Lives
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
As All of Dublin: The Years of Youth, 1882β1904....Pages 1-25
Standing by the Door: The Early Work....Pages 26-39
The Curve of an Emotion: The Years of the Portrait, 1904β1914....Pages 40-62
A Touch of the Artist: The Years of Ulysses, 1914β1922....Pages 63-87
Work in Progress: The Years of Finnegans Wake, 1922β1941....Pages 88-125
Back Matter....Pages 126-150
β¦ Subjects
British and Irish Literature;Twentieth-Century Literature
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