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James Joyce

James Joyce

James Joyce [1882-1941] is best known for his experimental use of language and his exploration of new literary methods. His subtle yet frank portrayal of human nature, coupled with his mastery of language, made him one of the most influential novelists of the 20th century. Joyce’s use of “stream-of-consciousness” reveals the flow of impressions, half thoughts, associations, hesitations, impulses, as well as the rational thoughts of his characters. The main strength of his masterpiece novel, Ulysses (1922) lies in the depth of character portrayed using this technique. Joyce’s other major works include Dubliners, a collection of short stories... Read full bio

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Cats of Copenhagen will be released on October 16, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
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Jun 30, 2009
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Dubliners will be released on June 28, 2005 in Mass Market Paperback
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will be released on May 24, 2005 in Mass Market Paperback
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The Independent, April 19, 2013
...nothing about? The power of imagination has come a long way since 400BC. Can even sceptical non-Catholics read James Joyce's excruciating description of the realms of hell in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man without feeling, if only for a moment,...
Creative Review, April 19, 2013
...Ulysses by James Joyce (Vintage). Cover by Peter Mendelsund Print publishing's uncertain future is spelled out in the difference between a range of recent book covers that say too much, and others...
Globe and Mail, April 18, 2013
...decades of relative lucidity, I will happily take on animal husbandry as a leitmotif in the novels of James Joyce, the darker side of Franz Kafka, or whatever else the TLS has to throw at me. I understand almost nothing. It’s all about the war. The...
Philadelphia Daily News, April 18, 2013
...symmetry to creating a new institutional bond. To the visitor, administrative changes should not matter. Within the Rosenbach, James Joyce's original manuscript of Ulysses will still be ensconced for all to see, stately and plump. From the News Desk ...
Buffalo News, April 17, 2013
...present of our globalized media culture and the lucid feverishness of our nightmares. He has been compared to James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Roberto Bolaño, Vladimir Nabokov, and even "Cloud Atlas" author David Mitchell, but all these comparisons do...
Noodls, April 17, 2013
...with, including the only surviving copy of Benjamin Franklin's first Poor Richard Almanac and the manuscript of James Joyce's Ulysses. The collection has since grown to include the papers of poet Marianne Moore, Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula, and the...
Guardian.co.uk, April 17, 2013
...works of Master Poldy yes'" This fragment of Molly Bloom's great soliloquy at the end of James Joyce's Ulysses – alluding to her husband and the novel's hero Leopold – has lain there for 90 years, just waiting for some enterprising editor to take...
Irish Times, January 19, 2013
...of Rome living in Dublin. He has resurrected the art of glass-plate portraiture last used in Dublin when James Joyce was sitting for his first portrait as an artist. Joyce referenced the glass-plate process of Dublin portrait photographer, James...
TheStar.com.my, January 18, 2013
...that stand just inside the door, this 19th century café is another legendary literary haunt. Oscar Wilde and James Joyce came to scribble here, whilst Hemingway quaffed gallons of the whisky grog, which has been a house speciality since the café first...
Washingtonian.com, January 18, 2013
...Pierrot Lunaire, with mime Mark Jaster, and To Wake the Dead, Stephen Albert’s setting of passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Elegy, Bruce MacCombie’s tribute to Stephen Albert, completes the evening...
BlackBook, January 18, 2013
...The thought of Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe hanging out together seems like a absurdly wonderful and probably dangerous combination. Appropos of nothing in particular, but necessary viewing if you’re a fan of the two director friends' work—and with...
Havasu News-Herald, January 18, 2013
...as Clive Cussler, Patricia Cornwell and Toni Morrison, and timeless favorites such as Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain and James Joyce. It also has thousands of nonfiction titles on a variety of subjects -- science, foreign policy, biographies and much more....
Psychology Today, January 18, 2013
...share the lessons learned from the journey with those who stayed behind. Campbell borrowed the term monomyth from James Joyce’s book Finnegans Wake and described the journey in The Hero with a Thousand Faces by saying: “A hero ventures forth from...
Charter 97, January 18, 2013
...you’re likely to feel that a map of Minsk is tattooed onto your brain, as specific as James Joyce’s Dublin, and not just its squares and streets and clubs and prisons. You’ll also feel the throb of the body of water that runs beneath the city...