Reading James Joyce - An Introduction

Reading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce's writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce's works and the background from which they emerged.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Biography
2 Approaching Dubliners
3 Approaching A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4 Approaching Ulysses
5 Approaching Finnegans Wake
6 Approaching the Minor Works
Appendices-Debunking popular myths about Joyce's writings
I. The Uncle Charles Principle
II. The love life of Bloom and Molly
III. The Dream of Finnegans Wake
IV. Definitions of Modernism and Postmodernism
V. Epiphanies, Epicleti, and Epiclets
VI. Satiric and Serious Joyce: "The Holy Office," "Gas from a Burner," and "A Curious History"
VII. Currency Terms with Selected Examples from Joyce's Literary Works
Chronology
Bibliography
Miscellaneous: Joyce Foundations and Journals

About the author

A. Nicholas Fargnoli is Professor of English and Dean Emeritus of Humanities at Molloy University in Rockville Centre, New York. He is founder of the Finnegans Wake Society of New York and past president of the James Joyce Society. He has published on James Joyce, William Faulkner, and ethics.
Michael Patrick Gillespie is Professor of English at Florida International University. He has written books on film, literary theory, and the works of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Kennedy.

Summary

Reading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce’s writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce’s works and the background from which they emerged.

Product details

• Authors: A. Nicholas Fargnoli, A. Nicholas Gillespie Fargnoli, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Gillespie Michael Patrick, Michael Patrick Gillespie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2023
• EAN: 9781032121444
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3212144-4
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Reading Literature Today
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Literary companions, book reviews and guides