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James Joyce : texts and contexts / Len Platt.

By: Platt, LenMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; New York : Continuum, c2011. Description: x, 186 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9781441197610 (pbk.); 1441197613 (pbk.); 9781441113337 (hardcover); 1441113339 (hardcover)Subject(s): Authors, Irish -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 809.933 LOC classification: PR6019.O9 | Z78216 2011Online resources: WorldCat details
Contents:
TOC Introduction to a 'biografiend' -- Early works -- Going forth by day : Ulysses -- Ulysses, Ireland, empire -- Reading Finnegans wake -- The Wake and the 1920s and 1930s -- 'I do not like that other world' : Joyce's publics.
Summary: This is an introduction to reading and studying Joycean texts. It surveys the key contexts -- literary, historical, political, philosophical and compositional -- which shaped and determined them. By identifying and engaging with Joyce's writing methods and style, the book opens up strategies and approaches for reading his complex texts.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-181) and index.

TOC Introduction to a 'biografiend' -- Early works -- Going forth by day : Ulysses -- Ulysses, Ireland, empire -- Reading Finnegans wake -- The Wake and the 1920s and 1930s -- 'I do not like that other world' : Joyce's publics.

This is an introduction to reading and studying Joycean texts. It surveys the key contexts -- literary, historical, political, philosophical and compositional -- which shaped and determined them. By identifying and engaging with Joyce's writing methods and style, the book opens up strategies and approaches for reading his complex texts.

English

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