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James Joyce : a critical guide

Lee Spinks
Introductory text with detailed textual analysis of James Joyce's major works. Lee Spinks includes an extended discussion of Joyce's life, times and historical milieu, along with a guide to the critical reception of Joyce's work
Print Book, English, ©2009
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, ©2009
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 233 pages ; 24 cm
9780748638369, 9780748638352, 0748638369, 0748638350
286412789
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Referencing; Introduction; 1. LIFE AND CONTEXTS: (a) Introduction; (b) Childhood; (c) The University Years 1898-1902; (d) Historical and Political Contexts; (e) Literary and Cultural Contexts; (f) A First Version of Exile; (g) A Year of Living Dangerously; (h) Nora; (i) A Dubliner in Europe; (j) Towards a Portrait of the Artist; (k) Breakthrough; (l) Zurich; (m) Paris; (n) The Scandal of Ulysses; (o) The Road to Finnegans Wake; (p) Last Days; 2. WORK: Introduction; Chamber Music; Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Exiles; Ulysses; Finnegans Wake; 3. CRITICISM: Introduction; First Responses; Ulysses and After; The Reception of Finnegans Wake; The Post-War Critical Scene; Post-Structuralist Joyce; Joyce and Feminism; Psychoanalytic Criticism; Political Joyce; Chronology; Bibliography; Index