Introducing Joyce (Paperback)

David Norris

ISBN 10: 1848313519 / ISBN 13: 9781848313514

Published by Icon Books, Duxford, 2012

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Paperback. One of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century, Joyce's Ulysses is often described as the most difficult novel in the English language. He ranks alongside such figures as Picasso, Schoenberg and Stravinsky as one of the great pioneers of modernism. But a myth of Joyce's difficulty has taken root, discouraging many readers. This is a great pity, because his writings are deeply human, enormously comic, and compelling reading. Although Joyce spent much of his life in self-imposed exile, all of his writings are obsessively and microscopically focused on Dublin's fair city. David Norris, Irish Senator, writer and Trinity College don, provides an introductory map to the labyrinth of Joyce's visionary Dublin. He takes us step by step from the early stories Dubliners, and A portrait of the artist as a young man, into the sprawling comic universe of Ulysses, and finally to the mythic dreamworld of Finnegans Wake. Compact guide to the great modernist writer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introducing Joyce (Paperback)
• Publisher: Icon Books, Duxford
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848313519
• ISBN 13: 9781848313514
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Flint, Carl
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

James Joyce is one of the most famous--and controversial--writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers from works such as "Ulysses," but David Norris explores his life and work in this engaging and intellectually rigorous introduction.

About the Author

David Patrick Bernard Norris (born 31 July 1944) is an Irish scholar, former independent Senator, and civil rights activist. Internationally, Norris is credited with having "managed, almost single-handedly, to overthrow the anti-homosexuality law which brought about the downfall of Oscar Wilde", a feat he achieved in 1988 after a fourteen-year campaign. He has also been credited with being "almost single-handedly responsible for rehabilitating James Joyce in once disapproving Irish eyes".