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
Literary responses Dorothy Richardson
Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce , focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in...
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.
205
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Edna O'Brien
When a revival of Joyce 's play, Exiles, was mounted in London in summer 2006, EOB contributed to the Guardian a spirited account of the play's themes and more particularly of its composition and...
Occupation Sylvia Beach
Joyce was launching a lawsuit against Samuel Roth at this time for illegally pirating Ulysses in the United States. He stated in a deposition against Roth that the book was not his property but...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
Ulysses grossed £2,608 and netted £1,637. Joyce received royalties of £1,636.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
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Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
The relevant clause in his will states: I leave all my manuscripts to Harriet Shaw Weaver and direct that she have sole decision in all literary matters relating to my writings published and unpublished.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
305
Occupation Dora Marsden
In January 1916 Weaver went ahead with the decision to publish Joyce 's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man after gaining Marsden's approval (though she would have continued independently if approval had...
Occupation Ezra Pound
Around this time, EP began corresponding with James Joyce and helped obtain A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for serialization in 1914.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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