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Joyce and Company

Autor David Pierce
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 mar 2006
Joyce and Company is a comparative study which encourages a way of thinking about Joyce not as an isolated figure but as someone who is best understood in the company of others whether from the past, the present or, indeed, the imagined future. Throughout, Pierce places Joyce and his time in dialogue with other figures or different historical periods or languages other than English. In this way, Joyce is seen anew in relation to other writers and contexts.
The book is organised in four parts: Joyce and History, Joyce and Language, Joyce and the City, and Joyce and the Contemporary World. Pierce emphasises Joyce's position as both an Irish and a European writer and shows Joyce's continuing relevance to the twenty-first century, not least in his commitment to language, culture and a discourse on freedom.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826490896
ISBN-10: 0826490891
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 161 x 240 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Continnuum-3pl
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
Part I: Joyce and History
2. Joyce, Sterne and the Eighteenth Century
3. Joyce, Erudition and the Late Nineteenth Century
Part II: Joyce and the City
4. Reading Dublin 1904
5. Joyce, Woolf and the Metropolitan Imagination
Part III: Joyce and Language
6. The Issue of Translation
7. Joyce's Use of Language in 'Sirens'
Part IV: Joyce and the Contemporary World
8. On Reading Ulysses after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
9. Joyce and Contemporary Irish Writing
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

'David Pierce might well be the ideal reader of the work of James Joyce. His interpretations are both sensitive and sensible. In this book his interests range from the cultural and intellectual climate that formed the writer Joyce, to the varied ways in which his works have been read by creative writers and ordinary readers.' Prof. Geert Lernout, James Joyce Centre, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
mention- The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 26, 2006
'Pierce's knowledge of Joyce and Joycean scholarship is encyclopedic. Similarly, the connections he makes between Joyce and the company of authors such as Sterne, Woolf and Jamie O'Neill, and between Joyce and issues of language and cultural studies, are accomplished with ease and erudition.' Damien Ward Hey, James Joyce Literary Supplement, Spring 2007
'David Pierce's Joyce and Company is a collection of interlocking essays which also reprints several of the author's previous publications on Joyce. The essays are accomplished, informed and wide-ranging and especially adept at teasing out intertextual connections between Joyce and other writers. The first chapter interweaves Joyce and Laurence Sterne through an exploration of their mutual interest in touch and transgression. Two chapters on Joyce and the city illuminatingly explore the affinities between his work and that of Alexander Döblin and Virginia Woolf. Like Döblin, it is concluded, Joyce is concerned with the symmetries and patterns that define the modern metropolis, while, like Woolf, he focuses on the city's margins and its submerged population of outsider figures. The final chapters of this judicious and balanced study provide space for even more expansive considerations, including the political valence of Joyce's work after the fall of the Berlin wall and its influence on a diverse range of contemporary Irish writers such as Thomas Kinsella, Aidan Matthews and Jamie O'Neill.' - Anne Fogarty, The Year's Work in English Studies 2008
"A great virtue of Joyce and Company is its implicit indication of the variety of communities that have influenced Pierce in his engagement with Joyce's works. And, in fact, the book's greatest merit is the way it suggests what good company Pierce himself is as a fellow reader of Joyce. He gives a sense of how he has come to produce a certain kind of Joyce criticism and of the capacities of that strain of scholarship; he is more interested in informing us than in persuading us...A very worthwhile collection of essays." - Victor Luftig, James Joyce Quarterly