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Introduction: Joyce and the grotesque -- The student. University College -- The old master in Christiania -- Chamber music -- A modern Daedalus -- Dubliners. Joyce and the short story -- Signs of paralysis -- Visions of the outcast -- A portrait of the artist and Exiles. The portrait and the artist -- Voice, memory, and discontinuity -- Phases of an identity -- Giacomo Joyce and Exiles -- Ulysses : list of episodes. A Dublin Peer Gynt -- Stephen in Ulysses : the loveliest mummer -- Bloom and Molly : the bourgeois utopians -- The styles of Ulysses -- The ultimate symbol -- Finnegans Wake : list of chapters. The nightmare of history. Work in progress -- The interpretation of fables and dreams -- Reading the Wake -- Recourse.
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James Joyce holds a unique position in literature. No writer has a higher reputation, none attracts more ardent devotees, and none poses so many difficulties for the first-time reader. This book is an original and well-informed survey of the whole of Joyce's work. It offers close readings of his early writings such as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and an extended examination of his masterpiece, Ulysses, as well as a stimulating introduction to that notoriously difficult work Finnegans Wake. Dr Parrinder stresses Joyce's ambivalent relationship to the Ireland of his youth, and his ability to incorporate the most banal and profane levels of experience and language into profound celebration of the human capacity for survival and regeneration. The Joyce who emerges is a writer of innocence and gusto as well as immense artistic cunning.
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Joyce, James,1882-1941-- Criticism and interpretation.