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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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 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 Mary Lavin
Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly in October 1941, the storyAt Sallygap has been likened to the works of James Joyce and Sean O'Casey .
Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne, 1978.
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Kelly, Angeline Agnes. Mary Lavin, Quiet Rebel. Wolfhound Press, 1980, http://PS 3523 A946 Z7 K29 1980 HSS.
73, 156, 191
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...
Literary responses Mary Lavin
This volume brought ML critical acclaim. R. J. Thompson read it as establishing her position as one of the most artful and perceptive masters of the story form in our day.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
In Ireland, wrote the...
Literary responses Alice Oswald
David Wheatley responded to this poem by establishing it as a landmark in the broadest literary landscape. He compared Oswald in some detail with Joyce (another writer much possessed by water). He rejoiced at her...
Literary responses Dorothy Richardson
Pilgrimage and its author have been grouped with various other writers and literary methods, particularly with Virginia Woolf , James Joyce , and Marcel Proust , who set out to explore and record linked elements...
Literary responses Augusta Gregory
Joyce (who with Padraic Pearseneeded to throw stones at the Irish Literary Revival and Irish Literary Theatre as anti-national,
Tóibín, Colm. “After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2016, pp. 11-23.
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wrote a hostile review. The origins of Gregory's stories, he alleged, were feeble...
Literary responses Mary Butts
This book attracted considerable critical attention. It was listed in the Daily Telegraph's Books of the Week and reviewed in the Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Scotsman, and the Irish...
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 Harriet Shaw Weaver
On 13 June 1913 HSW submitted to the Board of Trade an application to form The New Freewoman Company , with herself, Marsden, Bessie Heyes , and Grace Jardine as its directors. Each director was...
Occupation Gwen Moffat
After years in the army she found she wanted adventure, freedom, rejection of authority.
Moffat, Gwen. Space Below My Feet. Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, 1961.
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A chance acquaintance called Tom, a conscientious objector, introduced her to a bohemian or drop-out lifestyle and to the thrill...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
When Marsden considered changing the journal's name, HSW remarked, I quite like your suggestion of The Egoist.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
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She then, in December 1913, assembled two shareholders and the directors to vote on the name...
Occupation Sylvia Beach
This was the first American bookstore in Paris. It became a focal point of French and American literary activities. In the summer of 1921 the bookstore moved to 12 rue de l'Odéon.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
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Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW was fiercely loyal to her writers and their words. She changed printers many times because (fearful of prosecution for obscenity) they raised objections and cut passages. She was also tenacious about obtaining important material...

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