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James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet who is regarded as one of the most powerful and significant authors of the twentieth-century. Joyce is best known f[...]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work. This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappea[...]
Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of [...]
A classic novel which follows Stephen Dedalus as he progresses from boyhood to his coming of age in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century, describing his sexual awakening, his intellectual development and his rebellion against Roman Catholicism. From the author of Dubliners, Ulysses and Finne[...]
His stories are fillled with the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human[...]
First published in 1922, and modelled on Homer's "Odyssey", this is Joyce's account of one day in 1904 in the life of Dublin. It is an earthy story which focuses on the humble Lionel Bloom and his sensuous wife, Molly.[...]
This book focuses on Joyce s interest and involvement in early modern cinema and his subsequent thematic and formal borrowing for this genre. Leading Joyce and film studies scholars look at cinema s interest in Joyce as seen in important film versions of his work.
The first section of the bo[...]
This text presents a paperback edition of Arthur Power's account of his friendship with James Joyce during the 1920s. Power, a young Irishman working as an art critic in Paris, first met Joyce in a Montparnasse dancehall, and the two men maintained a somewhat prickly friendship for several years. Po[...]
Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation,[...]
This is one of the most significant literary works of the 20th century, and one of the most innovative. Young Irish Catholic, Stephen Dedalus, rejects religion and national ties to develop unfettered as an artist. Strongly autobiographical, the novel is one of the founding texts of Modernism and the[...]
Ulysses, the novel by the Irish author James Joyce, is considered one of the most important works of the 20th century. It was the first novel of its kind and foregrounded the Modernist literary movement. Now experience this behemoth of Western literature in a new, graphic format. Experience the clas[...]
Die Handlung begleitet die Figur des Dubliner Juden Leopold Bloom - ein moderner Ahasverus und Odysseus - einen Tag lang, von acht Uhr morgens bis weit nach Mitternacht, auf seiner Wanderung durch Dublin.[...]
In the cultural debates of modernism the concepts of time and space were juxtaposed, representing disparate sensibilities, styles of art, even political camps. Artists and thinkers of the era took sides: with time, i.e. all that is fluid and transitory, or with space, i.e. structure and permanence. [...]
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Collected Works of James Joyce: Chamber Music + Dubliners + A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man + Exiles + Ulysses (the original 1922 ed.)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.James Augustine Aloysius Joyce[...]
I den første nordiske biografien om James Joyce, tegner Bjørn Tysdahl et nyansert portrett av en de viktigste forfatterne i moderne litteratur. Med utgangspunkt i en adresse i Dublin og et familieportrett skildres Joyces oppvekst i et spenningsfylt Irland. Det fortelles levende om hans flukt til d[...]
Ulysses er en bok av den irske forfatteren James Joyce, utgitt 1922. Boken omtales stundom som «den beste romanen på engelsk i det 20. århundre», og anses for å være en av de mest utfordrende bøker en kan lese.Handlingen i Ulysses foregår i løpet av ett eneste døgn, den sekstende juni 1904[...]
Handlingen i Ulysses foregår i løpet av ett eneste døgn, den sekstende juni 1904. Det var også den dagen Joyce hadde sitt første stevnemøte med Nora Barnacle. I oktober samme året forlot de to Dublin, og Joyce kom senere tilbake bare på korte besøk. Kapitler av Ulysses ble gjengitt i tidssk[...]
En av novellekunstens fremste samlinger ? nå i etterlengtet nyutgave!James Joyce's Dublinere hører til høydepunktene innenfor verdens novellekunst, og flere av historiene er gjengangere i moderne novelleantologier. I Dublinere, som utkom første gang i 1914, møter vi James Joyce som en realistis[...]