The Dead: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0333618491 ISBN 13 : 9780333618493

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 1994

Synopsis

'...an introductory bibliographical essay, a short critical history, and one of the exemplary analyses.' - Ian White This edition of Joyce's greatest work of short fiction - the first to reprint The Dead apart from the other stories in his Dubliners collection - features an authoritative text together with five essays that approach the work from five contemporary critical perspectives, and editorial apparatus introducing the student to the critical approaches presented.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Along with Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, Joyce is a key figure in the development of the modernist novel. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922). Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Although most of his adult life was spent outside the country, Joyce's Irish experiences are essential to his writings and provide all of the settings for his fiction and much of their subject matter. In particular, his rocky early relationship with the Irish Catholic Church is reflected by a similar conflict in his character Stephen Dedalus, who appears in two of his novels. His fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin and reflects his family life and the events and friends (and enemies) from his school and college days; Ulysses is set with precision in the real streets and alleyways of the city. As the result of the combination of this attention to one place and his voluntary exile in continental Europe, most notably in Paris, Joyce paradoxically became both one of the most cosmopolitan yet most regionally focused of all the English language writers of his time.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333618491
• ISBN 13: 9780333618493
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Schwarz Daniel R.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible