This is the first book to explore the depth and range of Joyce's relationship with nineteenth-century figures and cultural movements.[...]

Margot Norris' The Value of James Joyce explores the writings of James Joyce from his early poetry and short stories to his final avant-garde work, Finnegans Wake. His works include some of the most difficult and challenging texts in the English literary canon without diminishing his impressive popu[...]

Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the particular pol[...]

Drawing on draft manuscripts and other archival material, James Joyce and Absolute Music, explores Joyce's deep engagement with musical structure, and his participation in the growing modernist discourse surrounding 19th-century musical forms. Michelle Witen examines Joyce's claim of having structur[...]

On the fictional morning of June 16, 1904?Bloomsday, as it has come to be known?Mr. Leopold Bloom set out from his home at 7 Eccles Street and began his day?s journey through Dublin life in the pages of James Joyce?s novel of the century, Ulysses. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Ye[...]

This is a dramatised reading of James Joyce's masterpiece adapted for BBC Radio 4, starring Stephen Rea and Sinead Cusack. Timelessly evocative, it is far more than the story of Stephen Dedalus' journey through Dublin. It is a huge, rich portrayal of human life. In this magnificent, highly accessibl[...]

Originally published in serial format, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," is the semi-autobiographical portrayal of James Joyce's early upbringing as an Irish Catholic in late 19th century and early 20th century Dublin. At the center of the novel is the protagonist Stephen Dedalus whose life[...]