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James Joyce: Texts and Contexts

James Joyce: Texts and Contexts

Hardcover

Series: Literary Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1441113339
ISBN13: 9781441113337
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 8 2011
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
James Joyce stands at the forefront of modernism - a writer whose work has gained a unique status inmodern Western culture.This book offers an introduction toreading and studying Joycean texts and surveys the key contexts - literary, historical, political, philosophical and compositional - which shaped and determined them. By identifying and engaging with Joyce's writing methods and style, the book opens up strategies and approachesfor reading his complex texts. It also introduces the critical reception of Joyce and his work, from the early structuralist and 'myth' critics, through deconstruction, to recent developments including historical criticism and genetic criticism.

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