James Joyce

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Standard Name: Joyce, James
Irish exile JJ , hailed by Yeats as a new kind of novelist even before his first novel was published, became one of the leading practitioners of modernism. As well as poems, a play, and a volume of short stories, he produced three important novels, from the last of which he put out several separate sections long before the whole appeared. Joyce encountered obstacles to publishing almost all his books, raised by censors both official and self-appointed. Without the tireless patronage of Harriet Shaw Weaver and Sylvia Beach , his last two books might never have been published at all.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Leisure and Society Jennifer Johnston
Although JJ says she is always reading contemporary young men and women writers coming out of Ireland today,
Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press, 2003.
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in her short list of her most beloved books Ireland is just outnumbered by England and...
Leisure and Society Sylvia Beach
Hemingway was scheduled to read alone but was frightfully anxious, so he asked Stephen Spender , whom he had met in Spain, to come along and read too. Hemingway was still nervous on the...
Literary responses Christina Stead
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer (the same who had hailed Stead the short-story writer as an impressive new talent) ranked her novel far lower. Even though he found here curiosity, wit, delight in words, and...
Literary responses Christina Stead
Stead's biographer Hazel Rowley observes that reviewers were nonplussed.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
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Harold Strauss in the New York Times Book Review (who found himself reminded of James Joyce ) felt forced to praise . ....
Literary responses Jean Rhys
Critically, Rhys has been lauded as a modernist writer, a feminist writer, and, more recently, a postcolonial, Caribbean, or Creole writer. Biographer Carole Angier suggests that her preoccupation with exile was common in her time...
Literary responses Stella Benson
The Nation and Athenæum said that this novel was a little masterpiece.
qtd. in
Benson, Stella. Tobit Transplanted. Macmillan, 1931.
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Naomi Mitchison , who had not yet met SB , was moved when she read this book to send a fan letter:...
Literary responses Ann Quin
Berg earned AQ two major awards: the Harkness Fellowship, given to the most promising Commonwealth artist under thirty years, and the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship from the University of New Mexico .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Giles Gordon
Literary responses Anna Livia
In American Book Review, John Jacob commented that Minimax was a novel James Joyce would have shown an interest in . . . [Anna Livia] has infused her writing with . . . inventiveness...
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
VW wrote to Ethel Smyth that the stories were diversions or treats I allowed myself when I had done my exercise in the conventional style.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
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An Unwritten Novel, she said, showed her...
Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
During the early part of ICB 's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger...
Literary responses Marcel Proust
The novel at once gave rise to an intellectual cult, and not among the French. Woolf wished she could write like Proust, though Joyce is reported as seeing no special talent in him.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
16 November 2010
Literary responses Jeanette Winterson
This novel received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press, 1996.
Reviewers in Cosmopolitan, the London Review of Books, The Times, the Financial Times...
Literary responses Edna O'Brien
Jonathan Yardley , reviewing for the Washington Post, stressed O'Brien's brilliance and her nationality. If what you're looking for is a map of Ireland, the fiction of Edna O'Brien will do just fine. She...
Literary responses Claire Keegan
The book was widely acclaimed soon after it was published, receiving the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Martin Healy Award, and the William Trevor Prize. The Los Angeles Times also called it the Best...
Literary responses Christine Brooke-Rose
Brian McHale says that CBR 's representations here of London's homeless are freshly observed as if firsthand, and that the novel is in the lineage of the great twentieth-century city novels—a London Wandering Rocks...

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